This week’s segment of CBS Doc Dot Com sexual addiction, a subject about which I learned absolutely nothing in medical school and have not learned much more since. In researching the topic over the past week, I began to understand that it is extremely controversial, with experts not even agreeing about whether sexual addiction is a true addiction.
When most people hear the term, they usually think they know what’s meant by sexual addiction. They may think of someone (usually a man) who has an incessant need to make sexual conquests, sometimes despite his own best intentions. But even back in the days when Sam Malone got this diagnosis on the old TV show “Cheers,” it was clear that a real definition was lacking. In 1998, two researchers published an article entitled “Sexual addiction: many conceptions, minimal data.” As Erick Janssen, Ph.D., Director of Education & Research Training at The Kinsey Institute, explained to me in an email: “We do not have a generally accepted definition of ‘sex addiction.’ It was originally approached as involving some kind of ‘inability to adequately control sexual behavior,’ but this is, as you can tell, not a very objective definition. According to some, sexual addiction seems in the eye of the beholder, or in the eyes of his or her therapist.”
For one side of the definitional argument, I spoke to addictions treatment specialist Mavis Humes Baird, who is convinced that sexual addiction is a true disorder because people are in the throws of an impulse they can’t control, that there are underlying changes in the brain that cannot be addressed by psychotherapy alone. She told me, “for example, if one of the partners in a couple is having affairs and they’re not a sex addict, marriage counseling or family therapy is very effective. But if they’re a sex addict, all the therapy in the world getting at problems in the relationship won’t touch the addiction. One of the primary referral sources for sex addiction is couples counselors who have been doing attachment work with couples for years with the addiction going on unaffected and sometimes kept secret for all those years. You can’t treat the sex problems between the partners until the addiction is treated. And that’s done by a combination of specific treatment protocols, and 12-step program involvement, and sometimes medication.”
via Dr. Jon LaPook: Sex Addiction: Is It Really an Addiction?.
Denise Richards was on Howard Stern Wednesday morning and for the first time opened up about her three boob jobs.
The former Bond girl, ex-wife of Charlie Sheen and flailing reality star told Stern about her chest to warn other girls not to get them done, despite having a career based largely on her comely looks.
“They’re natural on the outside. I’ve never talked about it but I’ll talk about it with you because I can’t lie to you.”
via Denise Richards: I Had Three Boob Jobs.
Last year Craigslist, which lists 18 employees on its “about us” page, made somewhere between $20 and $80 million dollars. So why is its CEO, Jim Buckmaster, so p.o.’d about sex ads in alt-weeklies?
Because these bottom-feeding free publications are making an erotic comeback in the classifieds biz, with an assist from law enforcement.
Buckmaster has even taken to the blogosphere to air his frustrations with alt-weekly encroachment. In a recent post, he lists several titles of adult ads he found on backpage.com, a collection of classifieds sites owned by Village Voice Media (VVM). “Cum lay your hotdog on my bun for memorial day” (Dallas); “Let me put you to bed backdoor available $80″ (Columbia, S.C.); “An Irish blowjob and a cum showering rainbow” (New York). He links to a screenshot of the last ad, which has photos of a woman performing fellatio.
via Will Craigslist’s New Stance on Adult Ads Save Alt-Weeklies? – City Desk – Washington City Paper.
Washington, Jun 2 (ANI): Microsoft‘s new search engine ‘Bing‘ may be as good as Google, but Internet safety experts have warned that there is a glitch in the engine that gives users easy access to pornographic material.
Bing went live in the U.S. this weekend, and bloggers and Internet safety experts discovered that one of its “features” needed only a few clicks for anyone, of any age, to view explicit pornographic videos without even leaving the search engine.
As Microsoft attempts to unseat Google, it unveiled a slate of convenient features for Bing, including an “autoplay” tool that lets users preview videos simply by hovering a mouse over them.he tool may become a liability because users can have easy access to porn videos on Bing, and not have to log on to one of the porno web sites.
via Microsoft’s new search engine ‘Bing’ gives users easy access to porn – Yahoo! India News.
HONG KONG – Actor-singer Edison Chen says widely circulated Internet photos of him having sex with female Hong Kong stars were a youthful indiscretion, speaking at length for the first time on a scandal that shocked the Chinese entertainment world last year.
“When you’re young, you do a lot of things you don’t quite comprehend. You think it’s fun. You do it. You don’t really think about the outcome,” Chen told CNN‘s Talk Asia in an interview that aired late Wednesday.
“When you’re young and when you’re a celebrity, and you have this and that, I think maybe you go overboard a little bit,” the 28-year-old Chinese-Canadian said.
via Edison Chen calls sex photos youthful indiscretion – Yahoo! News.
On yesterday’s episode of “The View,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck responded to the Playboy.com article written by Guy Cimbalo that listed her as one of the conservative women he’d like to “hate f**k.” I don’t blame her for being offended—I would pitch a fit if, say, Rush Limbaugh said he wanted to hate f**k me—but her annoyance that the National Organization for Women didn’t immediately respond (in fact, they didn’t know) is misplaced. After all, they have bigger fish to fry right now, like the murder of doctors like Dr. George Tiller.
However, NOW did eventually release a statement that said the Playboy article encourages violence against women. And then “The View“‘s Sherri Shephard went on to equate “hate f**k” with rape. This bugs me. Where I come from, hate f**king is not the same as raping someone. In every instance that I’ve used it or someone I know has used it, it has been in reference to having consensual sex with someone you just cannot stand, but you want to f**k for fun anyway, and that the animosity between you actually makes the sex hot in a way that’s different from sex with someone you love or like. You may want to call them horrible names afterwards, or never see them again, but hate f**king, in any definition I’ve experienced, has never been about sexual assault. In fact, I have a friend who hate f**ked an ex recently and had a grand ol’ time.
Of course, Hasselbeck doesn’t want to hate f**k Cimbalo, so if he actually followed through on his stupid little list, then I suppose it would be rape, but for the love of god, it is a LIST not a PLAN. It’s an offensive, gross, icky list, sure, and the sex he’s describing is hugely disrespectful and misogynistic, but it’s not rape.
via Hate F**king Does Not Equal Rape | The Frisky.
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