Shreveport Counselor Sees More Sex, Pornography Addicts

Shreveport, LA, Times ^ | 06-29-03 | Haag, Diane

[Theodore R.]

A few quick keystrokes and pornography is easily available to anyone who wants it.

Too easily, if you ask Marty Miller, a counselor who treats those with pornography and sexual addictions. Recently, he has had increasing numbers of people asking him for help, leading him to begin support groups for men.

[Theodore R.]

Dr. Laura Schlesinger said several years ago that the pornography on the Internet overshadowed and cancelled out the good that the medium would otherwise have provided.

[templar]

Dr. Laura Schlesinger said several years ago ...

If you want to know more about her, I believe there are still nude pictures of her available on the internet.

[corkoman]

you bad bad person you

[7 x 77]

The silly FR libertarians will post how this isn't a problem we should care about, but they're wrong again. Pornography devastates families. I've seen it, and they will too one day.

[general_re]

Testify!

[TheSpottedOwl]

Dr. Laura is right. I remember when my ex husband got us our first VCR...

[Drew68]

He has seen men spend $200 a day on Internet sites.

With the thousands of *free* porno sites out there, this kind of spending is mind-boggling!

[Theodore R.]

Yes, I knew about the nude pictures of Dr. Laura on the Internet, and I have not seen them. I think that episode in her past has been put aside. Or perhaps she is like so many of us: we don't always practice what we preach!

[af_vet_1981]

If you want to know more about her, I believe there are still nude pictures of her available on the internet.

I see you conceded the point in the debate.

[bethelgrad]

This is so true. I know guys who were so obsessed with internet porn they almost lost their wives. It really is a serious issue.

[kcar]

This might be a problem that concerned people should care about, but it certainly isn't a problem that the government or one dime of government money, should care about. Doctors like to say the problem is an "addiction" because they can seek to get paid by insurance for "treatment". The afflicted would be happy to say it's an addiction because having been caught a few times it's an apt excuse for their lack of moral willpower. Just a load of stuff.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I don't believe a word of that sex "addict" stuff. The whole thing is a way to rationalize bad behavior. The way things go today, it's a million times easier to "admit" that you're an addict. Instead of being called a pervert, people will immediately rush to you for support, have a good cry, and send you on a two-week vacation for "rehab". When you come back, it's bad form for people to talk bad about you since you are now a "former-addict" (one of the latest cannonized victim groups). The whole thing is an easy out for a bad behavior.

[Registered]

Eww, I'm thinking that any pictures of Schlesinger naked might actually cure a problem with pornography.

[7 x 77]

This might be a problem that concerned people should care about, but it certainly isn't a problem that the government or one dime of government money, should care about.

We're already spending trillions in governmental and non-governmental money trying to compensate for the breakup of American families which is caused in no small part by extra-marital sex, which has been encouraged by the destruction of community standards. And this cost is small compared to the cost of lost souls.

More libertarian nonsense.

[jocon307]

"[I]t certainly isn't a problem that the government or one dime of government money, should care about."

I'm not really seeing anything here that is about gov't spending, maybe I missed it.

Cripes, with all my many problems, at least I'm not a sex addict!

But, seriously, I have not doubt that for many people this is a serious problem. I thought this was a good article, thanks to the original poster.

[7 x 77]

I don't believe a word of that sex "addict" stuff.

When you continually partake in a behavior that's destroying your life and the lives of your loved ones, and you know it, but you continue -- what do you call that? But even if it weren't an addiction it's doing great damage and should be controlled.

[7 x 77]

I don't believe a word of that sex "addict" stuff.

When you continually partake in a behavior that's destroying your life and the lives of your loved ones, and you know it, but you continue -- what do you call that? But even if it weren't an addiction it's doing great damage and should be controlled.

[DoughtyOne]

Those photographs are from quite a while back. She had a boy-friend who wanted to snap some shots (just between the two of us, honest!). Her mistake was in trusting an ass.

[Antoninus]

Hey, if you want to get yourself into a high growth field, get into sex addiction counseling. It's only going to get worse in this country.

[kcar]

The point is that by using medical terminology, "addiction" to describe a moral failing doesn't do anyone any good - not the "Addict" who doesn't confront the moral choice he's making, nor our fellow taxpayers, who get to pay for the "treatment". There's nothing nonsensical about liberty.