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.

[RobbyS]

Jack Kennedy certainly was an "addict." if by this we mean a person who had no control.

[WKB]

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

Have you seen the Helen Thomas gallery?

[conservative cat]

Pornography and lack of morality are a serious problem, today. My ex had a problem w. sex/pornography addiction, which escalated (assuming he ever was as faithful as he said) into cheating and eventually leaving the kids and me for someone MUCH younger. I have no doubt that he continues to have pornography problems, but she is much more dumb and naive than I ever was, and it will probably be some time before she catches on. Pornography is not the root of the problem- he would have been a jerk even without it- it just made him an even bigger jerk than he would have been.

[Odyssey-x]

Do you keep secrets about your sexual or romantic activities?

Yes, when friends ask inappropriate questions about my married sex life I refuse divulge any details.

Do your sexual activities include the risk, threat or reality of disease, pregnancy, coercion, or violence?

Yes sex with my wife carries the unfortunate risk of pregnancy.

Uh oh I'm a sex addict.

[sixgunjer]

Moral willpower will only take you so far. As someone who beleives porn to be destructive and something to stay away from, I was able for many years to stay away from it by my own willpower. But it is such a pervasive thing in our society that you can't just "stay away from it," forever. It is so subtly seductive, especially for men, that you don't realize you're hooked until you can't go online without going to a chat room or sex site. After a while you lose any sense of wrongdoing and it pretty much becomes part of your life.

Ok, sermon over. See you in the Yahoo BDSM room.

Ciao

[The_Pickle]

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

I agree that the addiction to pornoghraphy is a serious issue in our time. However I can't agree that the government should have any say in the matter beyond legislation to keep it out of the hands of minors. I see sense in much of the legislation being brought forth i.e. requiring filters on computers in Public Libraries to limit their ability to access porn, yet I am still a firm believer in what a person does behind closed doors,(and don't get all indignent and make stupid statements about abusing kids and farm animals) is none of the governments bussiness.

If a guy is so addicted to porn that his wife leaves him then he's a sick foolish man and probably needs to be left. If however a man uses porn to feed his sick fantasies until he finally breaks and commits a horrific act then he is, was and always would have been, regardless or his use of porn, a sick dangerous man that needs to be locked up and get secluded from the rest of society.

[HIDEK6]

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

Actually, she's pretty hot if you like 60's chicks.

[gcruse]

^5 !!!

[Registered]

um, my mom was a 60's chick!

[HIDEK6]

um, my mom was a 60's chick!

So I guess you wouldn't think Dr. Laura is that hot.

[M. Peach]

"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. "

Wasn't the "boyfriend" a married man?

[M. Peach]

When it comes to sex, I hold my own...

[kms61]

Dr Laura is given to hyperbole.

[DAnconia55]

Ha What utter crap....

[DAnconia55]

Pornography devastates families. I've seen it, and they will too one day.

What if you're banging the wife while watching porn together?

[DAnconia55]

Yes, I knew about the nude pictures of Dr. Laura on the Internet, and I have not seen them.

You didn't miss much. Trust me.

[DoughtyOne]

Wasn't the "boyfriend" a married man?

I am not certain, but if he was, she is deserving of criticism right along with anyone else who participated in such activity.

My point with Dr. Laura is this.  None of us is perfect.  If the fact that any of us has sinned disqualifies us from taking moral stands, then morals will have no advocates on the planet.

Where Dr. Laura's comments are within reason, they should be listened to and agreed with on merit.

Where extenuating circumstances exist, such as Laura not specificly posing for a porn concern, or perhaps not knowing a man is married, this should be taken into considertation.  On the other hand, standards do cut both ways.  If she did pose for a porn concern or did know the guy was married, she should have known better, and it is certainly fair to mention it.

[DAnconia55]

And this cost is small compared to the cost of lost souls.

Just to let you know, you're not in the running for Pope. Although he is elected, it's not going to be you.

[proud American in Canada]

Interesting article. The 'Net is addictive, no doubt about it.

I'm not sure that the negative aspects (porn, etc.) outweigh the good (a more informed populace, for example, thanks to sites like FR).

But the computer does exert a powerful pull, and when we're sitting here typing, we are not spending time with our families, nor are we outside, walking in the woods or on the seashore, enjoying God's gift of creation.

jmho. please, no flames. :)

[DAnconia55]

My ex had a problem w. sex/pornography addiction, which escalated (assuming he ever was as faithful as he said) into cheating and eventually leaving the kids and me for someone MUCH younger

Yeah, I know what you mean. That never happened before the internet existed.