Porn-The Addiction Nobody Wants to Talk About, with Joshua Shea

Joshua Shea is a pornography addiction expert, certified betrayal trauma coach, therapeutic disclosure specialist, and the author of four books about pornography addiction, including I’m Reading This Book About Porn Addiction For a Friend (2022). Since 2018, Joshua has given more interviews about pornography addiction and betrayal trauma than anybody in the world. To date, he has internationally appeared on nearly 400 podcasts, television and radio shows using his wealth of research and personal story to promote the ideas that porn addiction spans all demographics and those with a problem should seek help before it’s too late.

He also speaks extensively about the issue of working through betrayal trauma, especially with the partners of addicts and those who are facing infidelity. Prior to admitting his 24-year addiction to pornography in 2014, Joshua was a prominent magazine publisher, award-winning journalist, film festival founder, and politician in central Maine. In 2017, Joshua launched PAddictRecovery.com He has also contributed articles about recovery to TheFix.com and Recovery Today magazine, is a TEDx Talk speaker, and has developed and presents a porn addiction educational presentation series for colleges, churches, libraries, and other groups.

Sober since April 2014, Joshua still lives in Central Maine with his wife and two children. The current animal count is four dogs and seven cats, but it’s ever-changing. Other books by Shea include: He’s a Porn Addict… Now What? (2019) Porn and the Pandemic: How Three Months in 2020 Changed Everything, released July 2020, and The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About: How I Let My Pornography Addiction Hurt People and Destroy Relationships (2018).

Tune into our latest episode to know about porn addiction and how no one likes to address it.

Some Questions We Answer For You:

1. How has porn become so pervasive?
2. What about porno as a replacement for relationships?
3. When is it too late for porn addiction?
4. Betrayal – has loss and worthlessness, what are the Dynamics? How dopes one deal?
5. You had a distinguished public life and then you admitted porn addiction. What happened?
6. You’re Sober? How does that correlate with porn addiction?
7. You’re an animal lover, what do you think that suggests about a person?