On the Frontline of Addiction

Son_of_Iroquois · Mar 12, 2016

When I was young there was a guy in our neighborhood that everyone was afraid of. People said he was insane. He was in his 40s and lived with his mother, behind her house in a run down trailer. Everyday he would stand on the corner of his yard with long greasy, unwashed hair, hugging himself with a filthy blanket, and stare wildly out into the passing traffic. I used to run by there when I was training for soccer practice, and I would see him in his yard. Sometimes he would stand there, shouting crazily at nothing, waving his arms erratically. Nobody ever told me his name, but the story about why he became like that was always the same.

"When he was 17 he tried to hide 100 hits of acid under his armpits. The LSD sunk into his skin, and he went insane."

Just like that. One stupid mistake and his entire life was gone forever.

When I was growing up we had is lucky when it came to drugs. Our teachers taught us the true danger of drugs. They showed us heroin addicts, videos of what alchoholism does to the body. As we grew up, we knew the consequences of taking drugs. Still, there were many people in my school who experimented and became heroin addicts, or they started smoking crack, thinking they could handle it. They made ignorant choices but the point is: they had been warned.

With porn, how many of us were warned? I wasn't. In fact most of us are told that it is fine, something OK and acceptable to use in society. Society has not yet seen the conesquences of this new drug, and thus is acting in ignorance. Addiction's favorite tactic is the ambush. As porn addicts we have been ambushed by the latest wave of addiction to afflict mankind. There are no teachers telling kids to watch out, showing them the devastating long term effects of porn use. In many ways porn is much more insidious than the average drug because it's effects are largely hidden. We don't turn into that crazy guy on the street corner overnight, our lives are ruined incrementally day by day, over many decades.

Addiction is ravaging our country. Heroin, meth, crack. Porn is no less destructive, and we should begin treating it as such.

owler · Mar 13, 2016

I feel just as you do. Why did nobody ever really earn of the consequences of using this material. I don't ever want my kids using this stuff, or any one else for that matter.

Son_of_Iroquois · Mar 13, 2016

owler said: ↑

I feel just as you do. Why did nobody ever really earn of the consequences of using this material. I don't ever want my kids using this stuff, or any one else for that matter.
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Society is slow to act. Individuals have to act to change society first, which can take a long time.

bicycles · Mar 14, 2016

It's really sad, honestly. It breaks my heart to think that I was exposed as a teenager to internet porn and the people in my lives who cared about me, who would protect me from other malicious addictive things, could not help. They couldn't fight an enemy they didn't even know existed. My worry is that porn will be treated like alcohol or cigarettes - just accepted as a negative but commonplace thing. Warned about, but never really fought. It pleases me though to know I'm on the front line and can help coming generations if I want.

UpendiT · Mar 15, 2016

We still have "professionals" saying that it's perfectly normal and healthy. Our society is raised and taught to defend whatever makes money. Porn makes money not only through porn, but the pills that are created to treat mental and sexual disorders caused by porn. I can assure you, unless society chooses to calm down and stop being enslaved to the pursuit of money, porn will only be replaced by another disastrous drug for the masses.

bicycles · Mar 16, 2016

I see what you're trying to get at, but I believe that you're thinking too grimly. One of the points of a community like this is to help people get away from the type of thinking that inspires people to make fire-and-brimstone predictions of the future like this one. Sure it's true that the porn industry has its hands in many pockets, and its also true that mankind is beset an all sides by all types of bad influences, but really the situation is not that dire. What your post is saying to me is that you feel as though you're without hope. "If it's not P that's responsible for my and others suffering then it will be something else". That doesn't leave the individual any option but to fail in his quest from the outset. If you feel that our goal as a collective is to get mankind off of P, then speaking of it as though it's something which has an unbreakable grasp, or unfathomable strength will insure that we as individuals and as a collective do not succeed. It's just a thought, but I think you'll find this task an easier one if you change your framing of it a little.

UpendiT · Mar 18, 2016

It's only fire and brimstone when someone claims nothing can be done about it. No one here has made such a claim. If we want to sit with our heads up our butts and pretend there is nothing wrong with how society functions, we are certainly free to do so. Don't expect the the thin charade of civility to hold together, though.

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