Stopping Big Porno

Friday, 19 March 2010
By Austin Ruse

Last month, with little or no fanfare, the American Psychiatric Association announced that it may add sex and pornography addiction to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) used by psychiatrists to recognize disease and treat patients. This is welcome news to the exploding number of those who suffer from such maladies, but also for those looking for a legal strategy to bring down Big Pornography.

The DSM would define what it calls “hypersexual disorder” as recurrent and intense sexual fantasies, sexual urges, and sexual behavior. The definition includes spending a great deal of time planning and engaging in sexual behavior, repetitively engaging in these sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviors, attempting and failing to control the urges, and disregarding physical or emotional harm to self and others in seeking such gratification. Masturbation, use of pornography, cybersex, telephone sex, and going to strip clubs among other things fall into this category. the rest