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spudsimple's review
Is Mura a good writer? Yes. Does he necessarily know what he's talking about? Sometimes.
I will preface this with I am a therapist working with mostly men with addictions. In 2018 (as opposed to 1987). The field has changed a bit and I recognize this in my critique.
Aside from outdated language, this essay breaks down nicely a very specific type of person. Where it falls short though, I can sum up through the following:
1). It seems that childhood sexual abuse against a boy is described for shock value. While this may certainly be that path that leads some down the road of sexual addiction, I felt like this was a bit of a cheap move to get the reader to feel bad for disagreeing with future points.
2). This type of aforementioned sexual abuse is by no means exclusive to young boys. And it's some male privilege bullshit to not at least acknowledge this.
3). Want some more male privilege bullshit? The description of the essay on the back cover starts "Much as been written about the degrading effect of pornography on women, but relatively little about the harm pornography does to men." 🙄
4). It totally fails to recognize societal conditioning of men to feel entitled to and strive for domination of the female body and the impacts that this may have (either by itself or conjunction to other traumatizing events) on development of addiction to pornography.
I will preface this with I am a therapist working with mostly men with addictions. In 2018 (as opposed to 1987). The field has changed a bit and I recognize this in my critique.
Aside from outdated language, this essay breaks down nicely a very specific type of person. Where it falls short though, I can sum up through the following:
1). It seems that childhood sexual abuse against a boy is described for shock value. While this may certainly be that path that leads some down the road of sexual addiction, I felt like this was a bit of a cheap move to get the reader to feel bad for disagreeing with future points.
2). This type of aforementioned sexual abuse is by no means exclusive to young boys. And it's some male privilege bullshit to not at least acknowledge this.
3). Want some more male privilege bullshit? The description of the essay on the back cover starts "Much as been written about the degrading effect of pornography on women, but relatively little about the harm pornography does to men." 🙄
4). It totally fails to recognize societal conditioning of men to feel entitled to and strive for domination of the female body and the impacts that this may have (either by itself or conjunction to other traumatizing events) on development of addiction to pornography.
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