Pornography use and recovery / PPU-A13-1
Honesty without Forced Disclosure — Concept brief
Understand the idea behind honesty without forced disclosure and consider whether it fits your context.
8 minutes · Handout · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Noah wants to discuss a broken agreement without being pressured into exhaustive detail.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Disclosure decisions should consider safety, relevance, and professional support.
The idea
Disclosure decisions should consider safety, relevance, and professional support.
An ordinary example
Noah wants to discuss a broken agreement without being pressured into exhaustive detail.
What this can look like
Sort information needed for an informed relationship decision from explicit detail that may not help; do not require a confession or graphic account.
Check the fit
What information serves informed choice rather than punishment? You may disagree with the framing, use fiction, or decide that this approach is not useful today.
A useful distinction
A chosen change goal and a clinical diagnosis are different questions. Address functioning, control, consent, values, and distress without assuming that sexual expression itself is pathological.
Prompts for this resource
- What part of this idea makes sense to me?
- What information serves informed choice rather than punishment?
Conceptual background
AASECT Position on Sex Addiction — American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.