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“I know what couples' trials can be”: Thérèse Hargot, the paradoxes of an apostle of lasting love

2024-02-12T12:44:40.448Z

Highlights: Thérèse Hargot is a sexologist, couples therapist and essayist. She has just published her fourth essay, an indictment against pornography. “I wrote this book during the ordeal, it was the flood around me, I was at my lowest,” she says. She sees hundreds of men, women (“and there are some!”), couples adrift because of this addiction. The damage is numerous: disappearance or alteration of sexual life, increased violence in the videos watched.


PORTRAIT - Sexologist, couples therapist and essayist, she has just published an indictment against pornography. And she is as determined in her fight to protect minors as she is full of cracks.


I wrote this book during the ordeal, it was the flood around me, I was at my lowest.

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When we meet Thérèse Hargot in the early morning, at her home, in a pretty setting perched on the heights of Paris, we are curious to know who is hiding behind this lovely sexologist with a shapely head, who has just published her fourth essay, an indictment against pornography.

Sexologist, couples therapist, school lecturer –

“but above all an essayist, that’s what I prefer”

– her hobby horse is

“lasting love”

.

And now the fight against the pornography industry, which she castigates in

Everyone Watches It (or Almost),

published by Albin Michel.

In her office, she sees hundreds of men, women

(“and there are some!”),

couples adrift because of this addiction.

The damage is numerous: disappearance or alteration of sexual life, increased violence in the videos watched, infidelity...

“I...

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Source: lefigaro

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