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Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
By Robert Jensen, Ph.D.
Note: parts of this review are graphic and may trigger PoSAs (Partners of Sex Addicts).
| Undoubtedly, Getting Offis the best single volume written about the entire topic of pornography. Porn is rightly portrayed as an extension and tool of the prevailing patriarchy; its hidden purpose, its use; its vile creation and its effects upon the porn user and those around him. Jensen pulls no punches in telling the whole story of the porn industry and its marketing aims. | |
| Note: | This reviewer makes a Jungian delineation between male and masculine and between female and feminine. Each gender has both feminine and masculine aspects regardless of the apparent gender. Female is not always feminine (to wit: Margaret Thatcher) and male is not always masculine. Some of the most egregious patriarchs come housed in female bodies. |
| Nonetheless, we live in a patriarchy and women suffer directly and in distinct ways. Men suffer as well, but the damage is more subtle and not the point of this review. | |
So Why Would a PoSA Read Yet Another Book on Pornography?
Groupon Promotes Sex Tourism and the Normalization of Porn
PornHarms.com has an initiative to boycott Groupon and we at PoSARC fully support that effort. If you have never been a clicktivist, this might be a good place to begin. Clicktivism is signing an online petition to register your position. And it is effective. We at PoSARC are asking you to both sign this petition and boycott Groupon until they change their existing policies.
The Big Benefits to Porn Users Who Gave it Up
Results from Informal Groups Tell the (Inspiring)
Truth by Lili Bee 4-6-12
I have been in ongoing talks with two friends, both medical doctors, both of whom have been adversely affected by pornography. One doctor is a recovering porn addict, the other is the spouse of an addict.
We talk, these two doctors and I, about the effects of porn use, and especially the current medical procedures for treating patients presenting with the effects of porn usage.
How Porn Hurts Us
by Lili Bee
Have you ever struggled to convey how deeply porn use disturbs you without tripping over your words? Without stammering? What about when the points you want to make about it reflect very strong beliefs you hold, but the person you’re conversing with not only doesn’t agree, but they don’t even seem to care?
Anticipating just such trouble ahead, have you ever rehearsed your points beforehand so you can confront someone later, only to have your anger get the better of you and instead your husband (or partner) dismisses your concerns?
Our New PoSARC Site Is Up!!
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Team PoSARC has been hard at work since November to update our look, content and create new features so that as we’re growing, we’re able to meet the requests that many of you have sent in.
Being triggered by ultra sexualized imagery everywhere is a PoSA’s commonplace nightmare. Being out with, or without your SAC (sex addict/ compulsive) when facing such ad images on billboards, sides of buses, store windows, magazine covers while in line at a store checkout, it’s enough to send us into a frenzy. And this type of imagery is only becoming more ubiquitous as seemingly everyone hops on the “porn-star imitation” bandwagon in a grab for the almighty dollar or their fifteen minutes of fame.
Q- Why do addicts seem so cavalier about whether the relationship survives or not? He does not seem to care unless he’s being kicked out or I threaten to break up with him.
Q- Please describe a genuine apology/amends-making. His apologies seem feeble and he does not seem in the least bit sorry that he hurt me, he seems sorry that he got caught.
“Ask A Sex Addict in Recovery Your Questions”
Q- I keep reading about the shame and self-loathing of the addict. I am not seeing NONE of that! He seems proud of himself. In fact, he accuses me of being ridiculously sexually limited because I do not want to act out like he does. I am out of here, this one has no shame. What gives? Read the rest of this entry »
“Ask A Sex Addict in Recovery Your Questions”
Q- What would you most want to say to spouses or partners that they might need to know?
