Looks like CNN’s spokesdouche born-again Glenn Beck (the male Nancy Grace) is about to start waxing fetishistically about so-called ‘porn addiction’ in their cable TV Headline News program and online vlogs. Sure, it’s CNN’s retro “look – shiny” and get traffic tactic of 1995, but just in time to get the morality fetishists all excited about Morality in Media’s and Bush administraiton sponsored upcoming ‘Protection From Porn Week“. That holiday is like Christmas and Halloween and my birthday all rolled together — a whole week for porn, yay!
Well, anyway — get educated about online porn and sex addiction, and why this is another hurtful myth, not based on any legitimate studies, designed to shame everyone into thinking masturbation to explicit images is baaaad. Get educated, and they have less control over us, and everyone sees the obviousness at CNN’s pathetic cheap trick to ‘make you look’. Seriously, why can’t we ever get a realistic mainstream media ‘news’ series on porn that isn’t biased? Why not something for ‘Protection From Fundamentalists Week” or a foil to counter christian Beck (or some truth in advertising for the series, at least)?
* Le suppository: Glenn Beck is CNN’s new ‘talk host’ — meaning they thought hiring a shock jock to be a “reporter” (this should always be in quotes, like the word “straight”) and videoblogger was a *genius* idea. Beck is on the porn addiction campaign, but just a *few* years behind the curve; here’s the game plan for his anti-porn series for CNN. Here’s a link to the horrifying Porn: America’s Addiction homepage (via Jonno).
* Porn addiction is associated with sex addiction: here are the behaviors associated with so-called sex addiction. Love how everything is grouped with molestation and rape.
* Annie Sprinkle on the legitimacy of the sex addiction test — read it, it’s very relevant here.
* Real info — Martin Downs has an interesting article about ‘porn addiction’ here (full disclosure, I’m quoted in it).
* Read all the myths from people who propogate things like ‘porn addiction’ and ‘protection from porn week’, like about porn making you rape and fuck children and how you only watch it if you can’t have a “real” relationship — and *exactly* why these are flat-out lies in my book The Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn. Read the Table of Contents here; listen to the podcast here.
* Tony Comstock, form the articulate porn-producing side of the argument, has these great thoughts on ‘porn addiction’ and you’ll never hear them on something like CNN. (yay blogosphere) Yes, the CNN series will have a mainstream porn talking head or two featured, but keep in mind that the AVN people always tow the line in the ‘all porn is good camp’ so it’s only a contribution to the mainstream black vs. white, good vs. bad argument about porn. I mean, most porn sucks, but that doesn’t mean it’s all good, or all bad. Love this quote from Tony’s post, snip:
“You know who’s addicted to porn?
The AP is addicted to porn. John Harmer is addicted to porn. [Reporter] David Crary is addicted to porn. They’re addicted to the money and attention and titilation they get by talking about porn, “researching” porn, “documenting” porn, and otherwise flitting around the edges and then wringing their hands over the growing porn crisis. They’re addicted the sloppy, slip-shot, or down right deceptive things that “tackling the important issue of porn” allows them. (Anyone notice this sounds an awful lot like what most pornographers like about working in porn?)
These people don’t want porn to go away. If it did, they’d have to report on real news. ”
