Posted by yxibow on March 8, 2009, at 23:52:01
In reply to Re: Porn addiction and medication, posted by linkadge on March 8, 2009, at 18:21:34
Its a socio-cultural phenomenon. And its also like trying to argue with religion, because there is a strong societal pressure from some religions on people regarding sexuality.
That being said, as an agnostic -- bring on the porn.
As a certain person noted, when you're down, at least as a male I can say pleasing yourself definitely meets an unmet need.
Its a release for some and, well it might even help insomnia.
I'm not trying to minimize what the average person might consider porn addiction -- not how much porn one has, I mean, what are cheap hard drives for ? -- no seriously, its how much time one spends on it.With a high libido, one may be able to "get off" multiple times a day? Is that a bad thing? I think it belongs more on the social or religious forums if one has issues there.
Real porn addiction would mean one is calling 1-900-etc.. lines all the time, running up tabs on it, and doing it for no good purpose, consuming an unreasonable part of the day.
If that's the case, its not really just medication that is going to do things -- I mean you can even go on a testosterone (males) reducer, but I think that's a harsh thing on the body.
Psychotherapy is going to have more of an impact, and if it does fall in the OC Spectrum which it could, behaviour therapy is probably going to be needed. Deleting files, throwing out tapes, having your phone blocked for 900 #s (although that won't help 800).
So I'm not saying I'm not sympathizing if it is a true obsession -- agents that help OC -might- help but its also as noted, I think strongly a behaviour modification that will take time.
But to be crass, I don't think one should completely cut off that outlet. We're all born (hopefully) with the ability to have pleasure and frankly, if you're depressed or anxious it is a blessing....unless you compare it to alcoholism, which I can't really get into a discussion because I don't know enough about the mechanisms behind that. If one is "prone to" addiction, then maybe abstaining from things for a while until getting them under control may be part of the therapy.
But in a free society, which I hope we live in, use what we have, hedonism is not necessarily a pathology unless it harms other people.-- best wishes
- Jay
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