2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
Quit inventing addictions
Kevin Dooley. He can be reached at kdooley@student.umass.edu.
Issue date: 4/11/07 Section: Editorial / Opinion
The segue from "Jeopardy" to "Dr. Phil" on UPN is always an interesting one. You go from watching awkward conversations courtesy of Alex Trebeck during the interview segment, to conversations where the guests try to act serious while trying not to laugh at the ridiculousness of Dr. Phil. But the segue last week got a lot more interesting thanks to one man. Allow me to introduce you to Ben.
Ben was on Dr. Phil with his wife to confess to the legion of Dr. Phil fans around the world that he was a sex addict. Yeah, so what? Aren't we all sex addicts by nature? Weren't we designed to be a sexual creature by the Creator? Of course, a case study of my life wouldn't tell you that, but I digress.
But as it turns out, our friend Ben has one serious case of allowing his Mr. Johnson too much freedom.
He explained that he's addicted to online porn and regularly takes two hour lunch breaks to go on masturbation marathons. He even frequents the local strip clubs where he passed out pictures of his family to the local female entertainers.
Apparently, his wife wasn't too happy about the embarrassment and ruin Ben brought upon the family. But he holds his claim of having no self-control over his inner demons. In other words, he is a slave to sex.
An addiction to sex for men has to be the oldest addiction on Earth and will always be an addiction. So why can't Ben just learn to control himself and realize he's having the same natural impulses we all do?
I'm joining the common sense crowd on this issue. Ben is someone who is simply not the master of his own domain and does not deserve our sympathy. But I'm willing to bet, in this country full of people who mislabel not having the ability to control themselves as a mental disease brought upon by Satan, that there would be people in Ben's corner.
So, I took some time off from watching old WWE clips on YouTube.com and the Boston Bruins audition for a prime-time spot on the "Who Gives a Rats Ass" channel for the 2007-2008 season to launch a mini-investigation into the matter.
Ben was on Dr. Phil with his wife to confess to the legion of Dr. Phil fans around the world that he was a sex addict. Yeah, so what? Aren't we all sex addicts by nature? Weren't we designed to be a sexual creature by the Creator? Of course, a case study of my life wouldn't tell you that, but I digress.
But as it turns out, our friend Ben has one serious case of allowing his Mr. Johnson too much freedom.
He explained that he's addicted to online porn and regularly takes two hour lunch breaks to go on masturbation marathons. He even frequents the local strip clubs where he passed out pictures of his family to the local female entertainers.
Apparently, his wife wasn't too happy about the embarrassment and ruin Ben brought upon the family. But he holds his claim of having no self-control over his inner demons. In other words, he is a slave to sex.
An addiction to sex for men has to be the oldest addiction on Earth and will always be an addiction. So why can't Ben just learn to control himself and realize he's having the same natural impulses we all do?
I'm joining the common sense crowd on this issue. Ben is someone who is simply not the master of his own domain and does not deserve our sympathy. But I'm willing to bet, in this country full of people who mislabel not having the ability to control themselves as a mental disease brought upon by Satan, that there would be people in Ben's corner.
So, I took some time off from watching old WWE clips on YouTube.com and the Boston Bruins audition for a prime-time spot on the "Who Gives a Rats Ass" channel for the 2007-2008 season to launch a mini-investigation into the matter.
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