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Kort's Korner
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Greetings!
 I want to welcome all the new subscribers this month to Kort's Korner.
This month I am focusing on how to help people understand what to do when sex gets in the way of their relationships. This can occur for so many reasons. I will be exploring this with my friend and colleague, Tammy Nelson, who has written extensively on the need for couples to maintain their sexual connection in order to keep the relationship close and intimate.
I am excited about my upcoming talks and workshops for 2010 please scroll down and see what is coming up.
Lastly I have written to articles now on the healthy use of pornography and welcome your thoughts and feelings on this at my blog.
I hope you have wonderful holidays and a very Happy New Year.
Sincerely,
Joe Kort, LMSW
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INTERNET PORN = ADDICTION, RECREATION or
INFIDELITY?with Joe Kort and Tammy NelsonClick Here to Register
In
this course we'll explore a differentiated view of pornography use, assessing
for addiction and compulsive use, as well as defining when porn is used as
recreation and its possible meanings in different relationships, of all sexual
orientations.
We will define monogamy, fidelity and exclusivity as it
relates to pornography use in couples and look at the pathological perspective
of pornography use as it desensitizes and/or traumatizes viewers.
We will
also see how porn can re-eroticise relationships when there has been erotic
neglect.
Participants will learn the three reasons people go on the
Internet to look at porn and will find ways to assess, treat and intervene when
porn is a problem.
TELECLASSES ARE ON-THE-PHONE CLASSES - YOU DO NOT NEED
TO JOIN LIVE - YOU WILL RECEIVE A RECORDING OF THE CLASS TO LISTEN ON YOUR OWN
TIME
WHEN: December 7 - 1PM to 2pm EST
COST: $25 (Intro class does
not include CEs)
To REGISTER: Click the link to below to register, pay by
MC/Visa and receive the number and info to join the class.
Click Here to Register
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I want to hear from you about your feelings regarding my latest article
Go to my blog and write in your beliefs, judgments and feelings about it.
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Upcoming Trainings and Workshops
Psychotherapy Networker
Symposium
March 25-28, 2010
Omni
Shoreham Hotel
Washington, D.C.
1. Treatment Issues with Gay & Lesbian Couples
2. What's
So Bad about Porn? Helping
Couples in Conflict about the Use of Pornography
Joe Kort and Tammy Nelson
MaleSurvivor's Twelfth
International Conference
New York City on March 18 - 21,
2010.
Conference is "Healing and Hope for Male Survivors."
LOCATION:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
1. Straight Guise: Treating Sexually Abused
Heterosexual Men Who Have Sex With Men
1. Mommy Nearest: Mother-Son Incest
and Its Impact on Adult Males
FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE
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Dates: January 22-24,
2010
This
workshop will be held at the Rowe Center in MA. Go to www.rowecenter.org and click on calendar of events and
click on Gay men: Sex, Love & Intimacy for more
information.
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Other Joe Kort Audios of past Teleclasses:
Why does THAT arouse me?
Learn the hidden meanings behind what turns you on.
Fee: $15.00 Click here to purchase the audio. You will then receive the
password to the page for download in an email.
Sex with the City:
An overview audio presentation on what sexual addiction is and what to do
about it.
Click here
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Joe's Latest Article:
Depathologizing Porn
Why Can't It Be Just an Acceptable
Diversion?
by Joe Kort
In more than 25 years of practice, I've heard hundreds of stories of how
pornography use can damage people's sex lives profoundly and ruin their
marriages. I've personally had many couples describe the shame and secretiveness
of one partner's involvement with porn. Time and again, I've treated people for
whom viewing porn has become a compulsion and who've come to prefer it to being
with a partner. Yet I've worked with many for whom porn isn't destructive to
their relationship, but, in their view, offers a source of excitement and
satisfaction they wouldn't otherwise experience.
Yet, despite the undeniable harm that porn can do, we therapists need to bear
in mind a fundamental fact: the overwhelming majority of people exposed to it
don't become addicts.
To read the article in it's entirety Click Here
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The Men In the Mirror:
Understanding Gay
Men and Their Porn
I wrote this an article in 2000 regarding the benefits and problems of pornography and gay men.
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