Addicted to Sex?

According to therapists there's been a huge rise in sex addiction in the UK. For fuck's sake! Am I the only person who thinks this so-called 'addiction' is just a load of old bollocks? I've said it before, and I'll say it again - if you're working class you'd simply be described as 'randy' or 'oversexed' and told to take a cold shower. However, if you are a middle class professional it has to be a syndrome: so-called sex addiction. It sounds more respectable. Just like being a 'cocaine user' sounds better than being a junkie if you are a professional. We really shouldn't be surprised that it is therapists who are making these claims - they've just about exhausted all the old established addictions and psychoses, so it is in their interests to promote a new one. Apparently, the rise in 'sex addiction' is down to the increased availability of porn via the internet. Really? Are these 'addicts' mainlining smut? Do they log onto a porn site and then shove the modem cable into their penis so as to download it directly? Terrible. Not like the good old days, when that hardcore stuff just wasn't freely available. Oh no. In my day we had to satisfy ourselves with smoking copies of mild stuff like Knave and Mayfair.

I actually find it quite offensive that these pseudo-experts are trying to put some middle manager with overactive hormones who can't get enough on a par with poor bastards who are wrecking their lives because they're hooked on drugs, drink or gambling. Are they really trying to tell us that 'sex addicts' will turn to crime to fuel their habit? Are we to expect an increase in smash and grab raids on the top shelves of newsagents? A sharp rise in muggings to provide funds for visits to prostitutes? What makes this so-called addiction so laughable is, unlike drink, drugs or gambling, it can be easily relieved. By hand. On you own. Feeling horny? Craving sex? Well, just knock a quick one off the wrist and you'll be OK. But hey, why should such facts worry the 'sexperts'? Sadly, the media will keep on reporting their demented ravings about 'sex addiction' because it makes for good copy and spectacular headlines. Believe me, it's only a matter of time before we start seeing headlines about 'sex addicts' suffering ODs - shagging themselves to death or rupturing their balls as they get overexcited by online porn. Actually, speaking from personal experience, far from creating 'sex addicts' the surfeit of internet porn is more likely to have the opposite effect - making people utterly indifferent to it. Let's be honest, a lot of porn's allure for teenage boys comes from the fact that, at that age, it is so difficult to obtain. When it's freely available from the net, it loses all its mystique and power.