This guy doubts the brain science of porn addiction...

Gottabebetter · Sep 9, 2018

farmerjones said: ↑

David Ley is the author of The Myth of Sex Addiction, and he religiously denies both sex and porn addiction.
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Deleted Account · Sep 9, 2018

Max Fisher said: ↑

What I found most interesting from some other articles and the one I posted was that the internal or external conflicts resulting from porn use, if rooted in moral or social based reasoning invalidates whether or not someone has a "problem" with porn. He seemed to diminish the pain that porn causes in peoples lives. He seemed to imply that you just need to change your thinking about porn to escape the negative feelings about its use, rather then addressing the use or porn as the primary cause of the negative feelings or conflict.

"The proponents of porn and sex addiction may do well to begin to change their dialogue, from attacking porn and sex, to increasing the dialogue about how sexual desire and sexual expression can conflict with public/private social values and ideals. Rather than trumpeting the danger of porn, they may be more effective and evidence-based to argue for education about the varying levels of sexual desire and the need for both society and the individual to be responsible for and responsive to those differences."

I could be over reacting in a knee jerk way. Maybe he isn't saying that at all and I'm just uptight.
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It sounds like the author has some kind of ideological agenda regarding sex. Sounds like he's saying that the only reason people can have a problem with porn has to do with one's "values and ideals". When in fact it's his own "values and ideals" that he feels are being threatened by the challenge of porn addicts. It doesn't surprise me that academia would be resistant to anything that challenges a progressive, "sex-positive" agenda, and that that's why sex addiction isn't an officially recognized diagnosis. "Why people who believe in sex addiction must be socially backward, reactionary puritans". That's just my interpretation

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SuperFurryThing said: ↑

It sounds like the author has some kind of ideological agenda regarding sex. Sounds like he's saying that the only reason people can have a problem with porn has to do with one's "values and ideals". When in fact it's his own "values and ideals" that he feels are being threatened by the challenge of porn addicts. That's my interpretation
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I agree.

farmerjones · Sep 10, 2018

Definitely ideological. Both David Ley and Nicole Prause have engaged in personal attacks of Alexander Rhodes on twitter:
see these section of a very long page documenting Prause's and Ley's attacks and harassment of people and organizations that says porn can cause problem -

Others - July, 2016: Prause & David Ley attack NoFap founder Alexander Rhodes

Others - July, 2016: Prause & sock puppet "PornHelps" attack Alexander Rhodes, falsely claiming he faked porn-induced sexual problems

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