We’re seeing more and more couples in conflict over one partner’s porn use. The most common clinical approach to this problem pathologizes one partner’s porn use while legitimizing the grievances of the consumer’s partner. This violates our commitment to neutrality—and more importantly, it doesn’t help most couples.
Join us as Dr. Marty Klein leads us in an exploration of how conflict about pornography is often used to avoid confronting a sexual relationship’s deficits. And we’ll look at various sexual issues—such as desire, arousal, and masturbation—that should be raised when working with these cases. We’ll learn how to help porn consumers and their partners disclose and discuss the state of their sexual relationship, and identify specific problems they would like to address.
Dr. Klein has been an MFT and Certified Sex Therapist for 42 years. A founding editorial board member of the Journal of Porn Studies, his recent book (his 7th) is His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America’s PornPanic With Honest Talk About Sex. Marty has trained tens of thousands of professionals in human sexuality in over 40 countries, and he appears regularly in national media such as The New York Times, National Public Radio, and the Daily Show.