Posted by yxibow on March 9, 2009, at 5:08:23
In reply to Re: Porn addiction and medication » myname20098002, posted by Garnet71 on March 8, 2009, at 12:27:00
By my comments, I wasn't shoving the possibility away.
But there's miles between feeling lonely and satisfying your urges in a legal manner with porn (or without) because you are in a current situation where you don't think you can have sexual relations and criminal behaviour.
I know this personally... lots of side effects, weight, self esteem, a major psychiatric disorder, and hangups about sex and my own orientation from OCD, certainly not from my fairly liberal parents, but from society and surroundings.
Some believe that the -criminally- ill, those with severe urges for minors or other things that I'm sure you can see dramatized on Law and Order SVU. This is an entirely different category.I also don't believe that regardless how repugnant it is to someone else, pure sexual fantasy on the screen, even if it is 'deviant', necessarily leads someone to act on it.
And then there is the belief, and yes, with some backing, that certain people can never reform their sexual behavior after even being released from prison. Tagged with acts in most states, listed sometimes, as 'sexual offenders', they are sometimes held in a psychiatric limbo in jail even after they have "paid their dept to society."
Or laws, some struck down that would prevent them being 1000 feet from just about anywhere, hence allowing nobody to live free anywhere.
And then there are those that are still on those lists, merely for, say, having a consensual homosexual act somehow in public or other entrapment. People have had to fight their way off these lists.
Now, I'm not saying that someone with a true hard core (no pun intended) criminal mental illness as opposed to obsessing about sex far more than the average person are the same thing.
But the term "correctional institution" doesn't seem to have much weight in places... /end soapbox/
These are complex subjects, I agree.
-- Jay
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