At a young age, Paul found “the one.” Tired of the porn and cheating on girlfriends, he decided to settle down and marry this girl. In the beginning, it seemed like the perfect fairytale romance. But lately, he feels resentful. A career woman with two children under age 7, his wife doesn’t have a lot of time to accommodate Paul’s daily demands for sex.

More and more, Paul finds himself masturbating to porn after the family goes to bed at night. He started using porn at 9 years old and used it pretty much every day of his youth. When his wife’s job or the kids started to get in the way of his desire for sex each day, he would stay up later and later masturbating to porn. After the birth of their second child, Paul’s porn use escalated to online sex chats, which led to anonymous hook-ups, strip clubs and a sensual massage parlor.

Why He Might Seek Treatment

Paul’s wife grows suspicious and starts digging around. Finding an extensive porn use history on his computer as well as emails and texts about meeting women at hotels and receipts from strip clubs and massage parlors, she insists that he get help.

It is also possible that Paul’s behavior at the local massage parlor makes him a target for a prostitution police sting operation. Faced with a prostitution charge and growing fears that his behavior will become public knowledge, he confesses some of his activities to his wife, asking her for help.