Posted AT 2:55 AM EDT on 12/07/07
Porn - the elephant in the bedroom
SARAH HAMPSON
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
Do you have a reptile brain? Or an angel brain? That's how I describe what determines your enjoyment of pornography. Pornography, and how it affects emotional intimacy, is the great unspoken issue of modern marriage.
It's the elephant in the bed.
Every sex therapist I spoke to said that in the Internet age it is a problem in many romantic relationships. But it is easily fixed, they advise.
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