After helping people quit porn for more than 20 years, we know there’s a strong connection between porn and shame.
Most research psychologists and sociologists recognize this connection. However, many still debate which comes first. Does feeling shame about porn cause people to consider it an addiction? Or does porn addiction cause feelings of shame about porn?
New research published in Frontiers in Psychiatry indicates porn addiction itself causes feelings of shame, even apart from religious convictions.1 Let’s take a look at the evidence, and why this is.
Who finds porn shameful?
Before getting to the “why” of shame, we need to first look at the people who are experiencing this shame.
Christians, generally speaking, oppose pornography on moral grounds. Porn is a sin. Some psychologists and sociologists have argued that people who feel shame regarding their porn use do so only because of their religious convictions.
However,…
