Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Sex addiction, the new excuse?
So now we know what ex-NY Governor Eliot Spite-zer's problem really is, he's a sex addict. Now I know this stuff has been documented by people like Dr. Patrick Carnes, actor Michael Douglas once admitted to it but I think the real upshot of all this is therapy is replacing the concept of sin and free will. The famous psychiatrist Dr. Karl Menninger even wrote about this years and years ago in his Whatever Became of Sin? and that's going way back but even then rationalization was a problem. It probably helps explain wife Silda's apparent decision to stick it out with him but are serial cheaters now to be understood to be silently suffering with their addictions and is there a Pill just around the corner? They can even name it Spitzotrol or something, it'll be his legacy.
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If not a Pill then a guru will be the thing to save them.
ReplyDeleteWell apparently God's out of the picture a lot of the time so a guru will do.
ReplyDeleteIt's like society is contradictory, you have your Viagra to get you revved up if you're a man but then you become a sex addict and have to be brought down. You have stay awake pills like Vivarin in Walgreen's right below all the sleep aids. You have books in the library on how to get pregnant and right next to them where to abort. The head swims.
ReplyDeleteLike you said, maybe we should all just read the Good Book instead.
ReplyDeleteThe answers to Life's problems are all right there Beth especially in the 10 Commandments, you can't get much simpler than this.
ReplyDeleteOf course Flip Wilson's Geraldine used to say "the Devil made me do it" so he was at least on the right track.
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