{"id":10863,"date":"2021-02-26T17:54:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2021-02-26T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:54:05","slug":"the-power-of-porn-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2021\/02\/26\/the-power-of-porn-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of “Porn Addiction”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Kelsy Burke and Alice MillerMacPhee, <\/span>“Constructing Pornography Addiction’s Harms in Science, News Media, and POlitics ,” Social Forces<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2021<\/span><\/div>\n\n
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If you google \u201cpornography addiction,\u201d you\u2019re immediately directed to a huge variety of advocacy organizations, professionals, and self-help articles that can help you \u201cbreak free\u201d of its negative effects on your life. Celebrities such as\u00a0 Terry Crews<\/a> and David Duchovny<\/a> have spoken out about their struggles with pornography consumption. State legislators have even gotten involved, with many states passing or considering resolutions defining pornography addiction as a public health crisis. At the same time, social scientists have critiqued the simple application of medical concepts to understand social problems like addiction. In their new article,<\/a> Burke<\/a> and MillerMacPhee<\/a> chronicle the recent attention to \u201cpornography addiction,\u201d how this focus contradicts science, and the consequences of labeling porn as addictive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burke and Miller MacPhee conducted a content analysis of over 600 documents to understand how activists, religious leaders, politicians and scientists framed the harms of pornography. They found that references in popular media and legislation to pornography as \u201caddictive\u201d are a relatively recent phenomenon, emerging during the early 21st century. The news media and politicians repeatedly refer to the dangers of pornography addiction despite inconclusive neuroscientific evidence that pornography can be addictive in the same sense as substances like nicotine or alcohol. Yet references to \u201cpornography addiction\u201d have increased dramatically in the last ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>Activists, reporters, religious leaders, and legislators all use terms such as  to \u201cpornography addiction\u201d to highlight porn\u2019s harmful effects on not only individual health but, also, heterosexual relationships and society. By framing pornography as biologically addictive, their judgements appear neutral or unbiased, rather than rooted in particular interests such as conservative christianity or the therapeutic profession. In short, social actors can use scientific and biomedical framings of pornography \u201caddiction\u201d to give legitimacy and authority to their own judgements about sexual behavior.By framing pornography as biologically addictive, their judgements appear neutral or unbiased, rather than rooted in particular interests<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kelsy Burke and Alice MillerMacPhee, “Constructing Pornography Addiction’s Harms in Science, News Media, and POlitics ,” Social Forces, 2021 If you google \u201cpornography addiction,\u201d you\u2019re immediately directed to a huge variety of advocacy organizations, professionals, and self-help articles that can help you \u201cbreak free\u201d of its negative effects on your life. Celebrities such as\u00a0 Terry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,33,85],"tags":[9226,134835,134837,2836,1047,134833,112727,176],"class_list":["post-10863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-health","category-politics","tag-biomedical","tag-biomedical-understanding-of-addiction","tag-deviant-sexuality","tag-heterosexuality","tag-pornography","tag-pornography-addcition","tag-sexual-norms","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10868,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions\/10868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}