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The Porn Trap

By: Wendy Maltz LCSW DST, Larry Maltz LCSW
Narrated by: Frank Block
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In this highly acclaimed recovery guide, renowned sex and relationship therapists Wendy and Larry Maltz shed new light on the compelling nature and destructive power of today's instantly available pornography. Weaving together poignant real-life stories with innovative exercises, checklists, and expert advice, this groundbreaking resource provides a comprehensive program for understanding and healing porn addiction and other serious consequences of porn use.

The Porn Trap will help you to:

- Decide whether it's time to quit using porn

- Learn how to stop using porn and deal with cravings

- Improve self-esteem and personal integrity

- Heal an intimate relationship harmed by porn use

- Develop a healthy sex life

©2008 Wendy Maltz and Larry Maltz (P)2023 Tantor

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This book helped me understand my husband's porn addiction. It allowed us to get the help we both needed, while maintaining healthy open communication and trust. This book saved our marriage, and changed us and our lives for the better.

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Dry and Impersonal

This book feels like a calculated lecture given to a little boy caught with his hand in the cookie jar, by his Professor McGonagall-like grandma.

The quotes from "real life patients" are clearly either fabricated or altered so heavily that they all sound like the author; a female, boomer, therapist. Not saying that demographic is bad, but getting real world advice as a young man from someone THAT distant from my reality, just didn't feel efficacious. It felt extremely impersonal.

Instead of a warm voice of "hey, I've been there. This is how I got help and these are the things that improved in my life," this book takes the very unusual stance of "you know this is bad. You're hurting people around you. If you stop, the greatest benefit you'll receive is that people around you will stop hurting. So stop being a bad boy. Just think about the people around you." Okay. But... Why don't we spend more time talking about what's in it for me?

To be fair... If you're looking for a top-down, clinical, no frills book about the reality of porn, with a passive voice of shame... This book might be for you. Maybe that's what you need. It wasn't for me though.

The narrator was good though. Technically sound, nice voice, and easy to listen to. I didn't catch any recording issues. It probably should have been narrated by a woman though. The book is clearly written from a female perspective, but narrated by a man. That juxtaposition was jarring.

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