Addiction or Ridiculous?

Don’t you love that feeling you get when you feel that you’ve gone to a lecture that actually stimulated your interest and aroused questions in you that you probably wouldn’t have thought to ask before.

Call me a nerd if you will but that was exactly the feeling I felt after today’s lecture on Sexuality and Intimacy Online. It finally prompted me to actually write my first blog.

Pornography.

Porno.

Porn.

However you like to call it, questions were raised in class about the seriousness of an addiction to pornography. A mini-documentary style video about a married man who is addicted to pornography was played and many class members, myself included, giggled and chuckled while watching. The reason for my giggle and chuckle was prominently because of the very serious and ominous tone that the reporter was using during the whole clip. As if he had just recently overcame some sort of disease that put their family through traumatic hell. This of course caused a debate to stir in class as to whether or not addiction to porn should be treated like any other addiction such as drug or alcohol addiction.

An addiction is an addiction and should be treated as such, no matter the subject matter. Today we seem so desensitized to anything remotely close to sex that some will lose grip on what is normal and what is abnormal in relation to sex. The TV show Friends gives a good example of what happens to you when you start to watch too much porn. Watch 3:52-4:46.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8y_XELbssc

I personally believe that porn is all well and good in moderation just like anything else. But when you start to think that any girl in a uniform will just rip your clothes off for you, well that’s when you know there is something weird.