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Originally Posted by Eisenhower
What? You don't have to be chemically dependent to be hooked onto something. Some people bite their nails or fiddle with their hair or eat their boogers (ewe)  well, there may be a chemical in those boogers... Some folks are work-a-holics or are compulsive etc... Pornography is a type of psychological dependency. This sort of thing occupies their thoughts and they feel a psychological as well as physical "need" to gratify themselves with something that ultimately never satisfies.
In some cases it's taken to the extreme as Ted Bundy has shown. Before Mr. Bundy began killing, he admitted to first finding and looking at pornography when he was younger. He stated that, while pornography didn't cause him to commit murder, the consumption of violent pornography helped "shape and mold" his violence into "behavior too terrible to describe".
Let's call this person... Bob. Knowing it's against company policy and that Betty, the receptionist, may not be "down" with the idea; Bob decides against placing an order for an in office "lap dance" with the local escort service. So what's that prove? If someone's checkin' out porn online, they most likely would prefer to not make their activities known to the rest of the office.
Addicts are not stupid. |
Much of that is the point that I was attempting to make, you simply put it in a much more pleasant turn of phrase. I am sorry for the tone that I had. Just because someone does something apealing with great frequency does not make that an addiction. If you have enough control over it to allow yourself to be discreet, then it is not an addiction. That goes for people who look at pronography as much as it does for those who pick their nose. And those who get caught are going about things in an unintelligent manner. My analogy of the call girl in the office was extreme, but it does show my point. The thing that prevents Bob from watching a live girl strip in his office is because he knows he will get caught when the secratary sees her walk in. But watching a webcam girl strip on his computer is
almost the same (not quite as bad though) but the chances of getting caught are significantly lower. And to say that he has an addiction to internet porn but not the real thing is akin to saying that an alcoholic is addicted only to Miller but not Coors. Addictions are very serious and addicts need help. Those who look at porn while at work just need manners.
As far psychological addictions go, I will admit that some people do have a gambling addiction, they can and will bet on anything. But I will not put people who look at porn into that category, at least not until I am convinced that it is beyond their control. Doing it because you can get away with it is not the same as being compelled to do it, such as in the case of gambling (which I brought up in my earlier post, possibly the worst example I could have picked). I am not saying that these people don't have a problem, because they do have one. Its just that their problem is mostly their attitude rather than a legitimat addiction.