candyflip:
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Looks of people over there blaming porn when they should be blaming themselves and taking responsibility for their own actions.
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Totally agree!
charly:
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Never expect anything good to come from these programs, they will sensationalise and defame us. It's called the ratings game.
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The whole profit concept of TV is based on thrusting heads in front of screens. Sensationalism or anything remotely "seedy" or "voyeur" will do that.. "Porn addication" is such a subject :-)
MattO:
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The main guy they interviewed in the story with an "addiction" tours the country doing seminars to "help others", so the whole story was pretty good PR for the guy.
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The US is a society which is being told each day they need pills for this and pills for that - all in the interests of their welfare and health of course :-)
There are "experts" on every damned subject from depression to foot massage (even "internet gurus"!) who make a business out of this. Many are genuine and have a valid service to offer - others just have their own "philosophy" and assume they are helping others - tho maybe often with good intentions.
Some people clearly do have an obsessive interest in sex - same with anything - alchol, gambling and the other "acknowledged vices".
Can you "blame" the adult or gaming businesses for this? Doubt it. If so, we can blame General Motors for making cars which were responsible for 1000's of road deaths etc...
There are people with flaws (ain't we all got them?) who don't have a "balance" nor the capability of making reasonable judgement. I believe this stems from certain cultures - ie those you accept that others are responsible for them and their well-being. Also cultures that have been "pandered to" and want for little - "my big toe hurts - you know a specialist?".
We also have folks being "taught" to behave in certain ways - like taking pills via media and other more subtle means - it's part of the culture thing again - to the extent that eg the US is one massive drug cocktail that rarely does little of any good for the people buying all this shit. (As an aside, a test on river water shows fish high on prozac and infertile cause of exposure to birth control pills - at the same time, they got plenty Viagra in the water! Nice cocktail! Also shows how abused the "drug market" is.)
Apart from commercial operations who "know" their products are killing/harming people (cigarette companies etc) - you can't "blame" the industry for the conduct of those who use it's services.
I'd rather see people being fed daily and having a roof over their heads, than some pandering to crap such as "sex addiction". There is plenty of the former to keep folks busy on more constructive stuff.
Common sense seems to be thrown out the window.