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| 2011 Newsweek |
Things that exceed moderation of their intended
purpose and spill over into other areas of life can most definitely be
classified as abuse or dependence, in my opinion. With this is mind, I started
searching around on the Internet and came across a TEDTalk, in which Ran Gavrieli expresses
his reasons for no longer watching pornography. I found the title interesting
and since this is a Human Sexualities class, I’d like
to tie it back to how social identity and gender roles play a part in our
sexual lives as well. How we are taught sex is supposed to be, how we associate
certain experiences with sex, and how our bodies biologically react during
sexual arousal ALL 'biopsychosocially' interconnect to form our sexuality.
Ran Gavrieli brought up some great points about how
media and what we watch is also something we should consider “consumption”.
What we feed our minds is important too and has an important impact on A LOT of
aspects of life!!! I thought I’d share this video and see what some of your
guys’ initial responses/reactions to what Ran Gavrieli had to say were. What do you
think about his example of ‘emotionally safe’ sex?
Sex addiction as a mental illness is in the current DSM. If I recall correctly, it is labeled as sexual compulsion, with various sub-diagnoses specific to the ritual objects/persons used. The Newsweek issue (2011) in the graphic above talked about sexual addition as an individual, psychological problem that can devastate people's lives. Sociologically thinking, could we claim that America suffers from a cultural addiction to sex? BTW, there are many psychologists and other social scientists who do not believe in sexual addiction as a 'true" addiction or even as a mental illness. And yet if, as Nicole says sex becomes so immoderate in an individual's life that they cannot adequately function, that sounds so much like addiction to me, like an addiction to heroin or other substance.
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