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    This Is Your Brain on Porn
    This Is Your Brain on Porn
    This Is Your Brain on Porn
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    This Is Your Brain on Porn

    By Karen Kropf

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    Sometimes online pornography starts out as "just a distraction" or "harmless entertainment," but it can become something else. When it starts interfering with work or school or relationships, you know it's a problem. Pornographic images imprint in the mind, and they will always be there, even when you wish they weren't. Getting out of the porn pit can be really difficult, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. If you or someone you care about is struggling with porn, this book has very practical information on how to break free. But let me be clear: this is for people who have determined their porn-use IS a problem, not to convince someone they HAVE a problem.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKaren Kropf
    Release dateSep 10, 2014
    ISBN9781634438742
    This Is Your Brain on Porn
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    Karen Kropf

    Karen Kropf began talking to teens about sex, love and relationship myths in 1998. It ultimately led to the founding of Positively Waiting, a non-profit organization, offering free public school presentations. Thousands of young people every year respond enthusiastically to her challenge to benefit from sexual self-control.Her first book was a wake up call to singles not to make relational decisions based on sexual chemistry, called, "Sex Makes People Stupid: How to Avoid Ending Up With a Loser."Raising Teens With Sexual Self-Control: A Parent's Survival Guide is Karen Kropf's second book. It's a humorous guide for parents who are afraid their kids will ask, "Were you a virgin when you got married?"Her third book is "This is Your Brain On Porn." Its a fast-reading practical guide to understanding the impact of pornography on the brain and what can be done to rewire it.She and her husband still offer public school presentations, plus a variety of workshops for parents, couples and singles. They live in Southern California.

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    This Is Your Brain on Porn - Karen Kropf

    This Is Your Brain on Porn

    Copyright © 2014 by Karen Kropf

    ISBN (978-1-63443-874-2)

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright © 2014 Karen Kropf

    All Rights Reserved

    This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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    Dedication

    To those who struggle with porn, and the people who love them.

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    Table of Contents

    Foreword

    Author’s Note

    Introduction

    Chapter 1 You’d Have To Be Blind

    Chapter 2 The Four Big Lies

    Chapter 3 Sexual Superglue

    Chapter 4 Chemical Cocktails

    Chapter 5 Rewiring Your Brain

    Chapter 6 Brain Changer Toolkit

    Chapter 7 Don’t Do It Alone

    Chapter 8 Fight FOR Something

    Chapter 9 Don’t Give Up

    Chapter 10 You Can’t Disappoint God

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    Foreword

    The standard my guy friends and I had was, "It’s okay to look, as long as you don’t touch." Then my bride caught me watching porn and started crying.

    No one ever warned me I would crave those images I saw - even years later! What was wrong with me? The desire for porn just wouldn’t leave. Not without a fight.

    No one will challenge your thinking about porn more than Karen Kropf. She is a master communicator who has interacted with thousands of high schoolers, college students and young bachelors. I should know. I used to tell my own story right alongside her in the classroom.

    Yeah, it’s a book about porn written

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