Dana (replying to me) wrote:
There is such a
thing as sex addiction, after all.
I think the term sex addiction is used to refer to activities with one or (generally more) partners.
It does; my point was that one doesn't have to introduce a foreign chemical like drugs or alcohol to fuel an addiction. The brain itself will manufacture the chemicals, given its stimulus of choice.
Speaking as both a producer and consumer of B7 porn (as well as one of the few exponents of the Slash With Absolutely No Explicit Sex sub-genre)* all I can say is that I'm not trying to induce anyone to read anything or view any image that they find repugnant or morally offensive. But I don't see any necessary connection between the statements "I don't want to read/write/publish sexually explicit fiction" and "Nobody else should either."
Agreed; I hope you don't think I was trying to make such a connection. I was merely wondering aloud about unproven assertions that pornography is/is not addictive. Even if it were proven addictive, I still wouldn't make that connection; I believe in the right of smokers to smoke, drinkers to drink, dreamheads to use Shadow....
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