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More women lured to pornography addiction

washingtontimes.com

2 pointsMikeCapone6 comments

This is a very strange article. First, I'm not sure why the author keeps talking about whether (or not) "Christian women" (sic) are immune. Second, it's filled with passages like this:

"If a man or woman ejaculates to pornography on a regular basis they will actually attach to sex as object relationships as opposed to intimate relationships," Mr. Weiss said. "So they will actually hunger for object relationships, creating over time what we call intimacy anorexia."

Sex, in its ideal sense, is relational, and object sex does not fulfill the relational aspect of that, said Mr. Weiss. A person doesn't get that full satiation, but gets a different kind of buzz with object sex because it's a different kind of sex.

It reads like someone trying to sound scientific while making up whatever he or she likes.

The story is based on a 2003 Today's Christian Woman survey and a 2006 Internet Filter Review survey. Both of these have a somewhat vested interest in the result and I find it hard to believe the survey is not skewed!

I'm sure 9/10 women are exposed to some levels of pornography at times, newspapers in Britain have topless women on Page 3, adult(ish) humour websites sometimes have fairly risque ads, but personally I would find it very hard to believe that 1 out of every 6 women has a pornography addiction - I can't even believe men's addiction level is that high.

Whoa, this article is some biased shit. I thought the washington times was a serious newspaper (european here).

You're probably thinking of the Washington Post. The Washington Times is run by the Unification Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times

No, the Washington Post is the sane DC newspaper. The Washington Times is owned by prophet/messiah Sun Myung Moon.

You may be thinking of the Washington Post or the New York Times. The Washington Times is well known for its right leaning coverage as well as its ownership (former?) by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

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