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The Porn Myth
In the end, porn doesnt whet mens appetitesit turns them off the real thing.
By Naomi Wolf
At a benefit the other night, I saw Andrea Dworkin, the anti-porn activist most famous in the eighties for her conviction that opening the floodgates of pornography would lead men to see real women in sexually debased ways. If we did not limit pornography, she arguedbefore Internet technology made that prospect a technical impossibilitymost men would come to objectify women as they objectified porn stars, and treat them accordingly. In a kind of domino theory, she predicted, rape and other kinds of sexual mayhem would surely follow.
The feminist warrior looked gentle and almost frail. The world she had, Cassandra-like, warned us about so passionately was truly here: Porn is, as David Amsden says, the wallpaper of our lives now. So was she right or wrong?
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im addicted to it, and i have a filter on my computer on my computer, that finally once and for all prevents me from watching it, but dont kid yourself. If you watch porn, it will eventually destroy your life, maybe not today, maybe not tommorrow, but is like crack, or heroin, you get a high, and you come down fast.
im addicted to it, and i have a filter on my computer on my computer, that finally once and for all prevents me from watching it, but dont kid yourself. If you watch porn, it will eventually destroy your life, maybe not today, maybe not tommorrow, but is like crack, or heroin, you get a high, and you come down fast.
Call me coldhearted but I don’t believe in this thing called “addiction”. Things that you do are based on choices that you make. If you don’t want to read porn, then don’t get porn. If you don’t want to smoke, don’t pick up a cigarette. If cigarettes are that tempting, make your hands into fists. It is difficult for fists to pick up cigarettes. Addictions are noting more than choices for the same think. Make a choice to not do the same thing and you will not be an addict to it. Nothing personal, but I think that “addiction” is just a wimpish cop-out – a simple lack of a making a true choice and sticking to it. It is lack of will power. The bottom line is that if you don’t want to continue doing something, then don’t do it!
Most psychologists will disagree with you. Adiction is no purely psychological. It is also very bilogical. You can almost think of addiction as what your body beleives to be normal. People who smoke get craveings because their bodies tell them they need to have it because not haveing it puts there body in a state it isn't used to. Truthfully they do. Ever observed a herione addict forced to quit cold turkey? They have become so addicted to it that they are more normal on the drig then not.
Yeah. I see what you are saying but I still do not buy it. It comes down do choice and discipline. When I exercise strenuously, I feel sore. My body is in a state that I is not used to. So what? If you know deep down what is good for you and then do what is good for you, of course your body is going to change but you stay with it.
Yeah. I see what you are saying but I still do not buy it. It comes down do choice and discipline. When I exercise strenuously, I feel sore. My body is in a state that I is not used to. So what? If you know deep down what is good for you and then do what is good for you, of course your body is going to change but you stay with it.
im addicted to it, and i have a filter on my computer on my computer, that finally once and for all prevents me from watching it, but dont kid yourself. If you watch porn, it will eventually destroy your life, maybe not today, maybe not tommorrow, but is like crack, or heroin, you get a high, and you come down fast.
Call me coldhearted but I dont believe in this thing called addiction. Things that you do are based on choices that you make. If you dont want to read porn, then dont get porn. If you dont want to smoke, dont pick up a cigarette. If cigarettes are that tempting, make your hands into fists. It is difficult for fists to pick up cigarettes. Addictions are noting more than choices for the same think. Make a choice to not do the same thing and you will not be an addict to it. Nothing personal, but I think that addiction is just a wimpish cop-out a simple lack of a making a true choice and sticking to it. It is lack of will power. The bottom line is that if you dont want to continue doing something, then dont do it!
Let me ask those of you who argue that addictive personalities don't exist and that individuals who allegedly have such personalities are simply weak of will if you're familiar with Fred Skinner's experiments. I would think you are. I mean they're just about in the mould of the cliche nowadays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement
So much for free will.
I'm not addicted to porn at all. I used to enjoy watching it when I had no one to be sexual with, but that went away once I started to have relationships where I dedicated myself to a significant other. A porn addiction will be more psychological than anything, but it is an addiction that can happen nonetheless.
Addictions are very real, that dosent mean they cant be overcome though.
Some years ago I hit my addictions head on and quit the following...
1. cigarettes
2. soda (diet and regular)
3. processed foods
4. meat
The hardest were the soda and processed foods. I also started jogging daily but now alternate between that and my stationary bike (to ease problems on knees). Exercize is addictive, I cant imagine a day without doing it. I love it now! Its the first thing I do everyday and when I was sick and couldnt for a few days....I felt a craving for it most definitely and was sooo glad to get back out there.
The absolute hardest was the soda and processed foods with soda being the absolute hardest. I will NEVER drink one again....I am all water now!
Erik Viking....I am assuming you are a swede and are doing the snus. My husband also used to use snus, I admit I am VERY glad he quit. I think he had a harder time quitting snus than I did quitting smoking!
Most psychologists will disagree with you. Adiction is no purely psychological. It is also very bilogical as well. You can almost think of addiction as what your body beleives to be normal. People who smoke get craveings because their bodies tell them they need to have it because not haveing it puts there body in a state it isn't used to. Truthfully they do. Ever observed a herione addict forced to quit cold turkey? They have become so addicted to it that they are more normal on the drig then not.
P.S. I am addicted to Diet Coke
Call me coldhearted but I don’t believe in this thing called “addiction”. Things that you do are based on choices that you make. If you don’t want to read porn, then don’t get porn. If you don’t want to smoke, don’t pick up a cigarette. If cigarettes are that tempting, make your hands into fists. It is difficult for fists to pick up cigarettes. Addictions are noting more than choices for the same think. Make a choice to not do the same thing and you will not be an addict to it. Nothing personal, but I think that “addiction” is just a wimpish cop-out – a simple lack of a making a true choice and sticking to it. It is lack of will power. The bottom line is that if you don’t want to continue doing something, then don’t do it!
You don't believe that babies can be born addicted/with postpartum withdrawal symptoms to drugs because of their mothers/fathers excessive usage? The medical profession would beg to differ.
And don't forget alcohol is a drug.
BTW, I refuse to call myself a recovered "alcoholic" lest people think I am sympathy seeking.
