In post #14, you wrote that porn addiction was a phrase concocted by feminists. That certainly implies you don’t think porn addiction exists—that it’s something made up. That’s why I wrote that I thought porn addiction is real and provided a link to personality traits of addiction. I know some people who share those traits in regards to their use of porn, again making the case that porn addiction is real.
Maybe you weren’t making the point that porn addiction doesn’t exist. Maybe you were just trying to be funny. I don’t know, but I didn’t treat you poorly simply because I disagreed with what you posted. Calling me a troll is a personal insult.
troll: a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, [1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
Have I done something wrong here? Pointing out my personal opinion that porn is addictive and harmful seems relevant to the thread. I’ve also been civil, and I don’t recall making any posts that prove I don’t respect liberty (which isn’t the same thing as anarchy btw).
And it’s not just your personal opinion. It’s the educated viewpoint of Dr. Judith Reisman and other respected researchers.
Many relevant links, here are two:
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/porn_as_erototoxic.html
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Porn as Erototoxic
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The term erototoxin has been introduced by Judith Reisman, PhD, in order to operationalize how the human brain processes erotically stimulating intimate scenes that appear outside, in the public media, a documentably unnatural, dangerous environment for such scenes. The resulting harms to the observer may present as physical impotence and/or as emotional, in the inability to bond. Such psychopharmacological dysfunctions will afflict many or all repeated pornography users. While the visual stimulus’ entry into the limbic system is virtually automatic and autonomic, it still allows for some levels of frontal cortical discernment commonly undeveloped in the adolescent brain. Although the tragedy of pornography use is thoroughly documented anecdotally, science is just beginning to confirm the involuntary anti cognitive nature of media eros.
Neurosurgeons Hilton and Watts explain in Pornography addiction: A neuroscience perspective, that all addictions cause chemical, anatomical and pathological brain changes “collectively labeled hypofrontal syndromes ... damage to the ‘braking system’ of the brain ... well known to clinical neuroscientists, especially neurologists and neurosurgeons.” “Patients with traumatic injuries to this area of the brain” the authors report, “display problems-aggressiveness, poor judgment of future consequences, inability to inhibit inappropriate responses that are similar to those observed in substance abusers.” Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) stated, “addictions such as pornography ...” Hilton and Watts agree. They urge a medical study of “the pathology of pornography” similar to the study of cholera, when its Public Health implications were “perhaps as primitive as that of pornography today.”
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And here’s another one, a bit less scientific:
http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo26/the-porn-factor.php
The Porn
Factor
The Path from Playboy to Sex Offender Is Well Traveled
- See more at: http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo26/the-porn-factor.php#sthash.1x8lTh8W.dpuf
In December 1953, Playboy magazine was launched and immediately began normalizing a new world order of autoerotic sexual fantasy. Hugh Hefner (until reading Kinsey in college, a virgin like most single young men) pledged that his “romantic” magazine would turn his “Playboy men” into skillful lovers, readying them for lifelong marriage. Yet his monthly magazine ridiculed virginity and marriage while glamorizing adultery and rape and showing consumers ways to trick women and children into illicit sex.
By 1969, millions of Playboy users, struggling with their unexpected, porn-induced “diminished arousal response,” began eagerly embracing the amplified stimuli offered by Penthouse. This gave us another generation of intimacy and potency challenged men.
By 1974, millions of Penthouse users, struggling again with a diminished sexual response, turned to Hustler for help. Hello to yet another generation of arousal—challenged pornography addicts, millions of whom became pushovers for internet pornography.
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“In post #14, you wrote that porn addiction was a phrase concocted by feminists. That certainly implies you don’t think porn addiction exists”
I wrote that it was a phrase concocted by feminists because they tend to ignore basic, natural, male behavior and treat it as an anomaly or in some way abhorrent behavior.
I do not believe that you will find that I wrote that an “addiction” occurring in certain individuals does, or can not, exist. Can you?
You seem to find it difficult to differentiate between flippant remarks in an internet forum and protestations of conviction laid down for serious debate.
I called you a troll because you match the role: you ignore the comment in total then “counter” argue on a topic that is not only irrelevant to what I wrote, but also attempts to pervert what I wrote.