Might As Well Face It You're Addicted To.... Porn.

Out of everything available in the world today is porn really that bad? Who are the people hurting? If you're addicted to drugs then you can kill yourself or others with the habit, the same goes for alcohol or cigarettes. So who are these people hurting with their "porn addictions"? Looking at some of the factors that help label anything as an addiction I came across these, "recurrent failure to resist impulses to engage in a specific behaviour," as well as "pleasure or relief at the time of engaging in the behaviour," so does that make every 16 year old boy an addict as well? It seems slightly on the ridiculous side to me. Perhaps we as a society are still uptight about sex in the first place and that's why such an overt expression of sexuality like pornography is so frowned upon by people the world over. I think we just haven't ever really moved on from those Victorian era sensibilities that meant a women who chose to stray from her husband was looked on as sick or evil, or that enjoying sex was a crime.

The young married couple who were trying to cope with the husbands "porn addiction" sort of baffle me if im being honest. What if the wife didn't have issues with pornography? Would his daily porn habit go from being a dirty little secret to something they did as a couple, or perhaps even become part of their foreplay? It seems to me that the only reason it was looked on by that couple as bad, dirty or even an addiction is because the wife took an issue with it. What if he had been doing something else on the computer? I don't know about anyone else but I play Tetris at least twice a day to either relax or if I'm bored and have nothing better to do.... and sometimes when I should be doing something like working on university assignments for example. What if he had been playing Tetris instead? Would he have been addicted to Tetris instead of porn, or wouldn't it not have been as big of a deal because society doesn't really frown upon Tetris the way it does pornography.

Cyborgs

The thought of scientists and artists creating cyborgs or integrating humans with machines is a scary thought.
There is just something creepy about mixing humans with metal, it is just so unnatural. But with the studies that were described in our reading for this week, it seems as though human society is heading that way.

There have been so many different stories about cyborgs and the most recent that I have heard of was featured on the news a few months ago. Japan has created a life-sized female robot who posses "human emotions" and she is used to look after the elderly. She looks like a real person, she even blinks and talks like a real person and she is used to make sure the elderly take their medicine and are well looked after.

Is this what society has come to? What happened to the good old days where people were looked after by real caregivers and family? Maybe the world has become too technological and work-focused so the family of these elderly people no longer have the time to care for them.

I think that is quite sad.
I definitely would not want my parents to end up in a robotic nursing home simply because I have no time to look after them myself.

It's funny to remember watching Terminator when I was younger and think "wow, what a great concept, but thank goodness our world will never end up like that! It's just impossible".
I guess anything is possible in this world and I will just have to wait and see if Terminator 1, 2, 3 and 4 unfolds in my near future. *Shudder*.