The more things change...

You notice, you never hear about women being addicted to internet porn. I just point it out because we are in denial in this country about attitudes towards sex and the sexes. If you don’t think that is the case, next time you hear a story about the teacher (female) who married her student - just swap out the genders and think about how the same story comes across (I also happen to like how the writer uses the gender neutral descriptor, “one partner” below when in fact there are no incidents of females cited).

There are many reasons couples break up, but a new, and increasingly common, one is that one partner becomes obsessed with Internet pornography. Now that porn is so easy to watch at home or at work, many men are spending enough time and energy on it that they drive their female partners to end the relationship. In fact, Internet porn has so changed American relationships that in a 2003 survey of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, more than half said the Internet played a “significant role” in divorces in the past year, and that online porn contributed to half of these cases. Once upon a time, a woman’s greatest fear was a good-looking, buxom blonde. These days, her greatest fear is thousands of them.