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If at first you don’t succeed, grope her

This might work, actually.

Say what you will about the dedicated PUAs (Pick-Up Artists) of the world: at least they sometimes actually talk to real human women. The guys in Reddit’s Seduction subreddit, I’m not so sure about.

It’s kind of sad, sometimes, to read the plaintive requests for advice on Seddit (as it’s known) from college guys who’ve fixated on some girl in some class of theirs, and want desperately to learn the secret formula to get into her pants. These aren’t guys who’ve mastered the art of “negging” women with clever little mini-insults (a favorite PUA technique); these are guys who haven’t quite grasped that you have to actually talk to a woman in order to ask her out.

Take this query, recently posted there:

My suggestion?

Write “coffee?” on your forehead, and stand in front of her. Point at your forehead if necessary.

So, yeah, I’ve been banned from Seddit.

Look, I feel for the guy. I’ve been that guy.

But just think of it from the point of view of the girl. Some guy you’ve never spoken to, some guy who doesn’t know a thing about you other than you make him feel funny in his pants, approaches you out of the blue and … slips you a note?

But really, the problem there isn’t the note. Well, part of the problem is the note, But the main problem is that college dude has never spoken to her before. As anyone who has watched Seinfeld knows well, “coffee” means “sex.” Going up to a woman you’ve never spoken to before and asking her out is a bit like saying “hi, you make me feel funny in my pants. I would like to put my penis in you. Perhaps we could chat a bit first. Though, clearly, I don’t care what’s in your actual brain, because here I am asking you out based on nothing more than the fact that you cause that aforementioned feeling in my pants.”

Pro-tip for lonely guys: remember that women are actual human beings also.

Now, this poor Sedditor got some good basic advice from the crowd there, basically boiling down to: figure out an excuse to talk to her before class, and see how it goes.

Now, Seddit may be mildly useful in giving this sort of basic advice to the truly hapless. But it doesn’t seem to be very good at getting across the notion that women are human.

Indeed, there was a strikingly similar question posted in Seddit a couple of days ago: a guy who wanted to ask out the only girl in his engineering class. His post, in stark contrast with the note guy, was bristling with PUA acronyms and lingo: the girl was an “HB8” (Hot Babe that he rated an 8 of 10 on the hotness scale);  he was on the lookout for IOSs (Indications of Interest) from her, and so on and so on.

But his strategy was strikingly similar to that of the AFC (Average Frustrated Chump) with the note: he was going to walk up to her after class and ask her out for dinner. But he was planning to add one more “technique” to his approach: “kino.” In PUA-speak, kino means touch.

So, yeah, that’s what he learned from all his study of advanced PUA-oloogy: just start touching her!  Women are eager to jump into bed with guys who come up to them out of the blue and start groping them. (The post itself was deleted after it got linked to in the ShitRedditSays subreddit, so no link.)

Trouble is, this guy is not the only one getting the message that Pick-up artistry is all about invading a woman’s personal space and “escalating” until she literally fights you off or given is. This is, in fact, the basic message of the PUA who calls himself Gunwich – a man who not that long ago (allegedly) shot a woman I the face after she refused his advances.

And, yes, pressuring a woman until she gives in, or up, is one way of getting in her pants. It’s also, you know, rape.

In recent days a number of Sedditers have posted advice that is little more than a how-to of date rape.  A number of instances were pointed out in ShitRedditSays, and were deleted by the Seddit moderators. It’s clear this is damage control; a number of regulars on ShitRedditSays have been banned from posting in Seddit – many of whom had actually never posted there in the first place.

Here’s a discussion of one copy-and pasted date rape guide that got deleted before anyone made a screencap.

The Seddit mods say this is “fringe” stuff that doesn’t reflect how most Sedditors think. Then how is it that some of the creepiest comments  get dozens of upvotes? Take this Sedditor’s advice on how to get inside a woman’s house (and then her pants) that I managed to screencap before it was deleted:

Now, there is plenty of PUA material that is not rapey. Manipulative, sure. Dopey, absolutely. But not rapey. A good Pick-Up Artist, in theory at least, should be able to tell when a woman is interested and when she isn’t, and move on when she isn’t.

But it’s clear that many Sedditors aren’t learning that whole “if she’s not interested, move on” thing. They’re learning: “if she’s not interested, pressure her and manipulate her, and wear her down. And be sure to touch her. Sorry, “kino escalate.”

They’re not learning empathy. They’re learning stupid human tricks. And, worse, they’re learning to ignore a woman’s “no,” to treat it as what PUAs call LMR – that is, Last Minute Resistance. And that’s pretty much  a formula for date rape.

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Posted on September 2, 2011, in creepy, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, nice guys, PUA, rape, rapey, reddit, sexual harassment. Bookmark the permalink. 858 Comments.

  1. YAY! Samuel 2112 said he’s leaving because of me!

    *waits for applause and celebration from the MBZers*

    **brushes rose petals out of hair**

    Now, shall we set up a pool to see how long it takes Samuel to come back after “going his own way” to tell us again how wrong we are?

  2. ive never heard anyone mention romulus in remus in connection of the rule of thumb before, but

    Neither had I, but according to the link that Bee provided, it looks like NWOslave has taken his Feminism 101 course from the ever-obtuse Christina Hoff Sommers, who also believes that anorexia doesn’t have much of a health impact on Americans (her objective evidence for this is the relatively small number of deaths that are attributed to anorexia nervosa as per the cause of death that is noted on the death certificates).

  3. I’m guessing a month or so. That’s what it took last time.

  4. NWO I am out of here. I tried to debate in a civil way my point of view and I am ignored and now this response from Ithiliana.

    Ding ding ding ding ding! Holly wins a prize!

    Oh, Samuel from the future, if you think that a Lazy Bear Weekend is without its many sexual dynamics and tensions, I don’t know what to say, sweetie. Good luck with your weird blog.

  5. @KathleenB

    “I am living, breathing refutation of your ’100% of women are raped in college’ thesis.”

    Whoa. You being a feminist It’s “your” thesis.

    It’s just like “your” schrodinger’s rapist theory. Ya see in schrodinger’s cat the sticky wicket was if the cat was dead or alive. In schrodinger’s rapist, we know there is a rapist in the box. Hence the term rapist. So the question isn’t “if” there’s a rapist in the box, the question is how to punish the man. You wouldn’t call it schrodinger’s dead cat, where’s the puzzle in that? The only question would be what to do with the dead cat.

  6. YAY! Samuel 2112 said he’s leaving because of me!

    Oh! *smacks head* Ithiliana wins a prize too!

  7. Ozzy ethics! They bite the heads off bats!

    Unless he means “Ozy ethics,” in which case that’s trying to be nice to everyone, eating vegan, volunteering for political causes I support, donating a tenth of my income to charity, keeping my promises, choosing a career that will bring happiness to myself and others, working hard at what I do, practicing changing my mind in response to new information and sometimes having kinky sex.

    …I hate bragging about my efforts to be an ethical person, because I fall short of my ideals a LOT and I don’t want to present myself as some kind of paragon of virtue, because I’m not, but seriously, if you were going to pick an ethical system for everyone to adopt, you could do a lot worse than choosing mine.

  8. NWO: I challenge you to find one singe feminist who flat out states that 100% of women are raped in college. Not any dodgy statistics, not your interpretation of the stats, a real feminist saying this. Preferably in a video, but any outright, unambiguous statement will do. Remember, google might be your friend, but not even a search engine will help you here, methinks.

  9. @ozymandias42

    “I hate bragging about my efforts to be an ethical person, because I fall short of my ideals a LOT and I don’t want to present myself as some kind of paragon of virtue, because I’m not, but seriously, if you were going to pick an ethical system for everyone to adopt, you could do a lot worse than choosing mine.’

    I promise to never think of you as a paragon of virtue. Feminism is the lowest wrung on the ethical system ladder. So I don’t think you could do any worse. Feminism and ethics, it’s like oil and water, they don’t mix.

    Annnnnd I’m outta here. Flounce!

  10. Also NWO: You do not get to lecture me about science. At all. My father (an actual research chemist) taught me more about science than you will ever know. And if you can’t figure out the ‘sticky wicket’ the cat involves, I’m sure as fuck not going to help.

  11. Today, men still responsible for Women choices but have absolutly no rigth to say anything. She decide to keep or not the baby but he must pay child suport for the women CHOICE. She choose to divorse and he must pay for her choice. She sleep around and have a child with some junky, the husband must pay for the little bastard. etc.

    He only pays child support to her if she actually raises the kid. If he raises the kid, she pays child support to him. Child support is about the welfare of the child, nothing more.

    But you know, I don’t actually like that system. I’d rather a general tax on the population, paid back to all parents.

  12. bee: actually everybody here who IGNORED him and started him onto his capsloky rantiness deserves a prize too!

    *showers rose petals over everybody*

    And is it just me, or might NWO be working up to another banning giving the incredibly nasty personal attacks on Holly and Ozzy instead of his usual generalized trollishness?

  13. Ithiliana: Well, technically Mary Daly? But she’s been dead for a while, and critiqued by feminists for even longer.

    BlackBloc: Oh, hush, I’ve only been having sex for two years. At my current rate, by the time I die I will have 283.5 sexual partners!

    NWO: “Ozzy dearest, you wallow in shit and piss which you consider sex. Your blog consists of you talking about your pussy. You’re a millionaires daughter whose toughest choice is wether to wallow in piss or shit or both for this evenings festivities. You have no ethical beliefs. Your art is promoting menstrual finger painting. Your “truth” is whatever you “feel” at any given point in time. The “business” you run is talking about your pussy on your blog. You’re going to spend your entire life in college living off of daddies money. And you’re lecturing me?”

    1) I have had piss-sex a single digit number of times in my life and view scat as a hard limit.
    2) My truth is based, as far as I can, on a dispassionate study of the evidence. I am not a perfect Bayesian rationalist; like all humans, I am biased and often rely on heuristics. However, I strive for rationality, which is more than I can say for you.
    3) I don’t run a business. However, running a business is something you can respect someone for even if they have kinky sex.
    4) I will be attending college for six years, not my entire life, with a two-year break for the Peace Corps.
    5) I am a utilitarian ethicist who believes that for fallible human beings deontological moral rules should be made. I have a complicated list of the deontological rules I follow, many of which are derived from the work of Peter Singer; however, I deisagree with him on many points.
    6) Menstrual blood painting is awesome.

  14. I’m unethical because I… believe men and women should be equal? o.O

  15. Ozymandias42: weekend brain–not technically sure of context you’re putting Mary Daly in (whose work I loved a lot more back in the 80s than Friedan’s, but whose work has yet been critiqued quite strongly by feminists–ditto Friedan’s of course–but that’s the way these things work though I’m not sure either NWO or Samuel 2112 can get that).

  16. Oh, please let Samuel-the-condescending-prat stick the flounce!

  17. Whoa. You being a feminist It’s “your” thesis.

    Actually, slaveman, it’s an MRA’s incredibly boneheaded misunderstanding of a survey from the 1980s, which you’ve unsurprisingly adopted as your own.

  18. http://kittywampus.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/dalys-misandry-idolatry-in-second-wave-feminism/ <– Mary Daly says in an interview that men should be reduced to ten percent of the human race. MRAs, please note how many feminists say she sucks donkey balls off a stick.

  19. NWOslave has gotten so ugly and mean. What happened to the sweet, lovable troll who just went on about how Cyrillic and Spanish use the same characters and how Judaism is an aggressively evangelistic religion (and it IS only a religion)?

  20. I dunno, but he’s doing wonders for my self-esteem. No, seriously. If that douchebag hates me, I have to be doing SOMETHING right.

  21. Oz, you are unethical because you are an evil woman who enjoys sex and talks about it without shame, instead of being a fine, upstanding man who wants to fuck 15 year-olds and thinks rape is justified if the woman is being a tease.

    Hope that helps. :)

  22. Another addition to “Samuel’s life in movies”:

  23. Well NWO if you’re not right, and feminists aren’t right…then who the hell is right????

  24. My comment was delayed in mod for a while, so here it is again on benefits of celibacy

    A man is expected to have lots of heterosexual sex and always to be on the chase for it. If he’s not, he’s not a “real man”, and considered less masculine. This pressure can make sex a lot less pleasurable.

    That is why (temporary) celibacy can be so liberating for a man. Then you have the time to sort out inner desire from outside pressure, feel secure in your masculity without the need to be validated by sex and know that when you have sex, it is because you really want it, which surely is more pleasurably.

  25. “A man is expected to have lots of heterosexual sex and always to be on the chase for it. If he’s not, he’s not a “real man”, and considered less masculine.”

    I don’t know who got that into your head but you might want to consider switching social circles. Heck, I don’t get pressured into sewing and wearing dresses because it’s feminine. Dammit I’m gonna wear pants and play video games. In your face society!

  26. Now, shall we set up a pool to see how long it takes Samuel to come back after “going his own way” to tell us again how wrong we are?

    Now now, Ithiliana, if it wasn’t for Samuel dropping by today and stamping his feet when we didn’t immediately respond to his requests, we might still be labouring under the mistaken notion that NOMAS is NOT “a solid MRA organization.Fucking solid. They are hardcore MRA with a feminist tilt.”, and that NWOslave is NOT the Yoda of the MRM.

  27. Do what you have to od for your own enjoyment, so long as it doesn’t infringe on others. If you’d rather not have sex, for any reason whatsoever, don’t. If it’s temporary, fine. If it’s permanent, fine. I don’t care.

    But Samuel was trying to claim actual health benefits because TCM (Or possibly TIM) says it’s good for you. Laughable bullshit, at best.

  28. It always impresses me how, no matter how disparate their individual views and personalities, MRAs will always leap to each others’ defense. One believes that all sex is rape and one believes that there’s no such thing as rape? “Right on, brother!”

  29. *showers everyone with rose petals*

    You know, I used to think my Labrador begged shamelessly for cookies – and then I saw Samuel.

  30. Bee said Ding ding ding ding ding! Holly wins a prize!

    Oh, Samuel from the future, if you think that a Lazy Bear Weekend is without its many sexual dynamics and tensions, I don’t know what to say, sweetie. Good luck with your weird blog.

    Nah I cannot let you win. I decided to come back. but I have a Feminist blogger partnering with me.It is not a weird blog. It will be real good.Trust me I am all about excellence. I encourage you all here to comment

    Lets see who ha the guts to comment.Lets see how compassionte feminists are

  31. You really needed reinforcements samuel?

  32. Man, I put my money on at LEAST a week.

  33. None of that means there’s a physical addictionf or sex; addiction isn’t a term used widely. It refers to observable physical effects that build a dependency on a substance. You don’t get addicted to cigarrettes because they just taste so good; you build a chemical dependency on them. There’s little to no evidence of such for sex.
    Rutee stated the above quote

    The problem is addiction is real.Sex addiction. There is a book by Patrick Carnes “Out of the shadows” very real. Check this out Rutee or Joanna or Ami Or Kristin or Holly or Ozy or Hellkell or Pam or Magpie check it out this link give me your feedback

    http://www.slaafws.org/

  34. Dammit, Samuel, you have to stick the landing or you don’t get full points! 2.43 from the Michigan judge.

  35. 1.75 from the Russians.

  36. Man, I put my money on at LEAST a week.
    Ozy stated this

    The design of my blog is cool. I spent a few bucks(not a lot) it is just an “amateur blog”
    It could expand.

  37. I knew he wouldn’t stick the flounce.

    If your blog is as coherent as the rest of your comments I’m not wasting my time. It’s a big enough nuisance sussing out your meaning here, and a big ole’ blog post is only going to be worse.

  38. Kathleen said Dammit, Samuel, you have to stick the landing or you don’t get full points! 2.43 from the Michigan judge.

    What do you mean?

  39. Seriously I am asking just a few person here to please please give me your feedback on this site http://www.slaafws.org/

  40. “Nah I cannot let you win. I decided to come back. but I have a Feminist blogger partnering with me.”

    Oooh, is it magdelyn?

  41. Samuel: When you flounce out, vowing never to darken our door again, you have to not darken our door again for it to actually count, this is called ‘sticking the landing.’ If you come back, you didn’t stick the landing and suffer mandatory deductions. Don’t you ever watch gymnastics? (I’d think, judging from your avatar, that you’d enjoy the men’s part… big, beefy dudes showing off their muscles…)

  42. Talacaris said My comment was delayed in mod for a while, so here it is again on benefits of celibacy

    A man is expected to have lots of heterosexual sex and always to be on the chase for it. If he’s not, he’s not a “real man”, and considered less masculine. This pressure can make sex a lot less pleasurable.

    That is why (temporary) celibacy can be so liberating for a man. Then you have the time to sort out inner desire from outside pressure, feel secure in your masculity without the need

    to be validated by sex and know that when you have sex, it is because you really want it, which surely is more pleasurably.

    If you read my above post celibacy for a guy makes him feel sex. All that testosterone that energy its like radiant its like a glow in the eyes of a celibate man. It’s awesome.Theres life in a celibate man

  43. The problem is addiction is real.Sex addiction. There is a book by Patrick Carnes “Out of the shadows” very real. Check this out Rutee or Joanna or Ami Or Kristin or Holly or Ozy or Hellkell or Pam or Magpie check it out this link give me your feedback

    http://www.slaafws.org/

    None of this is a citation to a study on the physical effects of ‘sex addiction’. Telling me that there’s rehab for it doesn’t actually mean there’s a scientific basis for that rehab. It means there’s rehab for it. It’s possible there’s a groundwork for their stuff, but given the fact that psychological practitioners have a surprisingly shitty track record for actually supporting their stuff with science, it doesn’t by any stretch guarantee it.

  44. “Seriously I am asking just a few person here to please please give me your feedback on this site http://www.slaafws.org/

    No, hon, that’s not how it works. I’ll repeat this for emphasis:

    “I am certainly not going to tell some dickbiscuit on the internet who has suddenly decided omg rape is horrible and erect penis penetrating woman is horrible (as if rape is limited to that, which it isn’t), and OMG what do YOU WIMMINZ think anything except beyond STFU and go spend some time reading all the feminist works on rape and rape culture and stop perpetrating the patriarchal heart that underlies rape culture which is the male assumption that you have a right to demand anything from women, from our bodies to our attention to our sympathies.”

    Do what Ithilana said – STFU, go educate yourself, and stop thinking you’re entitled to our attention.

  45. Samuel, my feedback on that site is that I am not your personal website reviewer.

  46. Kathleen said amuel: When you flounce out, vowing never to darken our door again, you have to not darken our door again for it to actually count, this is called ‘sticking the landing.’ If you come back, you didn’t stick the landing and suffer mandatory deductions. Don’t you ever watch gymnastics? (I’d think, judging from your avatar, that you’d enjoy the men’s part… big, beefy dudes showing off their muscles…)

    LOL you crack me up Kathleen. It’s actually Labor day here in The USA and I am off tomorrow so I gave “down time” to blog on man boobz that is why i am here. I’m actually having a blast blogging here. It is fun in a way although aggravating as well. But It is a Lazy sunday night off from work and here blogging.

  47. are we watching a computer achieve consciousness?

  48. No, I don’t think consciousness has much to do with this . . .

  49. Holly I am not referring to my blog. In fact out of respect for David I should not even discuss my blog here but it is good to network with people who like to discuss he sociology of sex and gender.The site I linked above has to do with sexual addiction. One poster said there is no such thing. I say yes inasmuch as Tiger Woods went away bto sex addiction rehab.
    I need your feedback on this site http://www.slaafws.org/

    Please just give me your feedback. I will do the same for you. This way we can have a more mature debate on issues affecting us all

  50. Samuel 2112: Give me ONE good reason why any of us should give of our time and energy to give you feedback on a blog you recently started (with or without Feminist Blogger)?

    If you’re using this blog to post about feminism at the same dismal level that you’ve shown in this discussion, then I have too much respect for my blood pressure to go look at it.

    Where in this blog’s mission statement do you see the statement that “our mission is to help clueless men who are too fucking lazy to do their own work.” You want to learn more about feminism–fine. Go read and think and stop thinking you get to lecture other people on the topic when you have not a single clue.

    And where did you get the idea that feminists have to be “compassionate” toward men? That’s what TEH WIMMINZ are supposed to do for TEH MENZ in the kyriarchy. Feminists, remember are evil lesbian penis shrinking and collecting witches who kill men for fun. And hang around with cats. Where in that role do you see “compassion” required? (Except for the cats of course! *snuggles down with six adorable kitty cats*

    Besides,you want expert consultation and critique, you pay for it. And that may involve being willing to do the same for other people–i.e. sharing critiques and commentary.

  51. Blesses Goddess, I could get more sense out of CleverBot. And CleverBot doesn’t keep spamming/shilling some blog – or demand comments.

  52. “I need your feedback on this site http://www.slaafws.org/

    Please just give me your feedback. I will do the same for you. This way we can have a more mature debate on issues affecting us all”

    Once again, you aren’t entitled to our feedback. You aren’t entitled to our attention at all. And stomping your little trolly feet will get you nowhere.

    Now have another all-caps tantrum and then go. Stick the dismount this time.

  53. Rutee stated None of this is a citation to a study on the physical effects of ‘sex addiction’. Telling me that there’s rehab for it doesn’t actually mean there’s a scientific basis for that rehab. It means there’s rehab for it. It’s possible there’s a groundwork for their stuff, but given the fact that psychological practitioners have a surprisingly shitty track record for actually supporting their stuff with science, it doesn’t by any stretch guarantee it.

    Rutee I am no Dr. Ruth Westheimer but I do believe sex addiction is real just like alcoholism. I mean there are several 12 step groups dealing with this. Sex and Love addicts Anonymous, Sexaholics anonymous Sexual Recovery anonymous,

    Studies have shown that many men are addicted to porn. Some women are addicted to romance novels bodice rippers/

    Sex and Love addicts Anonymous is a 12 step program for sexual and relationship addiction like AA id for alcohol.. The have thousands of members worldwide. This has to be real.

  54. Oh dear, this is… special..

    http://amangoinghisownway2112.wordpress.com/

    I have a feeling like most women would be taken aback for at least a moment if her boyfriend got it on with another man.

    If I had been drinking something, I’d be buying a new keyboard.

    If women really believe that men are “dogs” obsessed with sex, maybe its really a fear of male lust. Men’s sexual drive is a force to be reckoned with and it’s threatening whether it’s a promiscuous gay man, a cheating husband, or an aggressive guy at a bar. There’s a feeling that men are controlled by their sex drive, and that it has to be in check. Women may be wary of the consequences, they may also have little or no sexual power if male lust changes it’s course away from them.

    Sex is rape, men who have any sex at all are lust monsters, and you women should be grateful there’s a man here to tell you how women think–that’s our Samuel.

    The other day I was at work and a young lady came into the office. She was, objectively, very sexy. She wore a suggestive blouse showing her cleavage. My first instinct was to focus on her chest, like it was an automatic setting for me in the Man Box. But I took a moment and thought about who this person was, and who I was. Somewhere in my brain a bell rang and I shifted my gaze up from her cleavage and looked straight into her eyes. I saw her humanity. I saw that she was a human being on this earth with problems, ambitions, or hobbies, just like any man. I talked to her and asked her about her interests. She said she loved aquariums, fishing, boating, and loved to travel with her boyfriend. It was a truly different experience for me. I saw a whole person in that body as opposed to a sexual object. I figured out something for myself and I still felt masculine, a more evolved man, thinking with my head and my heart.

    I have never seen someone award themselves so many Congressional Medals Of Super Awesomeness because they managed to carry on a brief conversation with another person.

  55. “Rutee I am no Dr. Ruth Westheimer but I do believe sex addiction is real just like alcoholism.”

    You also believe that not masturbating makes you glow.

  56. “I have never seen someone award themselves so many Congressional Medals Of Super Awesomeness because they managed to carry on a brief conversation with another person.”

    I know – it’s like he can’t tie his shoes unless there’s applause.

  57. Samuel from the future: What happens when women are celibate? Is there a glow in their eyes? Are they radiant? Is there life in them? What are they retaining? Or do women glow more when they make contact with radiant-making semen?

  58. “How do women really feel about gay men?”

    About the same as I would towards any person O.o

  59. Protip Samuel: just because there is a book about sex addiction, does not make it ‘real’–there are academic experts who disagree with the “myth of sex addiction.”

    30 seconds of googling led me here (and wow, has Dr. Klein got you sussed out to the nth degree, you creepy little spiritualist non-masturbator glowy-eyed noob):

    The myth of sex addiction

    The diagnosis of “sex addiction” has become popular with both lay people and professionals in recent years. But it is a destructive and irresponsible one that should be discontinued. In 21 years as a marriage counselor & sex therapist, I’ve never seen a single case in which the label “sex addiction” was clinically useful. That’s because there is no such thing. What we clinicians do frequently see includes:

    * Poor decision-making: Even the healthiest people occasionally behave sexually in ways which later they regret.

    * Poor impulse control: This, too, we all experience to one degree or another with money, food, TV, gossip, etc. Most of the time it is simply inconvenient; sometimes it gets out of hand.

    * Obsessive-compulsive behavior: A small number of people think, feel, and do things that they don’t want to do. Whether it’s exhibitionism or hand washing, they are driven: the more they try to stop, the worse they feel, and the more they have to do it.

    * Psychotic or sociopathic personalities: This small group of people has impaired reality-testing, and typically behaves with complete disregard for even the most basic social conventions.

    Addictionologists now call all of these behaviors, when sexuality is the vehicle, symptoms of the same poorly-defined disease–“sex addiction.” Supposedly, “sex addicts” can’t control themselves; they cannot be cured, they can only “recover.”

    But I say that, except for a handful of truly disturbed people, all of us have the ability to control our sexual energy. For the vast majority of people, “being out of control” sexually is a metaphor, a metaphor we clinicians see every day in countless non-sexual forms. It’s more accurate to say, instead, that for many people, controlling sexual urges is difficult or emotionally painful. Relinquishing our power–FEELING out of control–is a classic defense to reduce this pain. By encouraging people to admit that they ARE powerless, they are prevented from examining how they’ve come to FEEL powerless–and what they can do about that feeling.

    Saying that people are powerless over sex, the fundamental definition of “sex addiction,” undermines them. It robs people of the tools they need to understand or (if they wish) change their lives. And it relieves people of the responsibility for developing an adult sexuality, one that involves subtleties, choices, and strong feelings such as fear, anxiety, anger, joy, and passion.

    The concept of “sex addiction” is a set of moral beliefs disguised as science, as reflected in these fundamental concepts of “sex addiction” training programs and Sexaholics Anonymous:

    Sex is most healthy in committed, monogamous, heterosexual relationships

    There are “obvious” limits to healthy sexual expression (for example, masturbation more than once a day)

    Choosing to use sex to feel better about yourself or to escape from problems is unhealthy.

    The concept of “sex addiction” really rests upon the assumption that sex is dangerous.

    There’s the sense that we frail humans are vulnerable to the Devil’s temptations of pornography, masturbation, “promiscuity,” and extramarital affairs, and that if we yield, we become “addicted.”

    The “sex addiction” movement is also dangerous in the way it supports the anti-sexuality forces in this country. “Sex addiction” is the Right’s newest justification for eliminating sex education, birth control clinics, gay/lesbian rights, and books like “The Color Purple” from school libraries. We should not be colluding with this destructive, life-denying force.

    If mass murderer Ted Bundy had announced that watching Bill Cosby reruns had motivated his awful crimes, he would have been dismissed as a deranged sociopath. Instead, Bundy proclaimed that his “pornography addiction” made him do it, and many Right-wing feminists and conservatives treated this as the conclusion of a thoughtful social scientist. Why?

    Virtually no one in the field of sexology believes in the concept of “sex addiction.” All clinicians and thoughtful people should reject any model suggesting that men and women must spend their lives 1) fearing sexuality’s destructive power; 2) being powerless about sexuality; 3) lacking the tools to relax and let sex take over when appropriate. In these terrible anti-sex times, one of our most important tasks is to reaffirm that sex, though complex, is precious, not dangerous.

    Oh, and if you use a bit of basic html you can more easily distinguish between what you are quoting and what you are saying, and it would make more sense to link back to the comment than quote the whole.dang.thing:

    Take all the spaces out, put the first at the start, and the second at the end and:

    VOILA!

  60. Ithiliana any people here if you need feedback from a mans perspective hit me up. I am a scorpio I am pretty intuitive.I know the masculine mind how men think.Trust me, I am an MRA leader for a reason,

    Ithiliana you said the word “kyriarchy” wtf?

    Ithiliana read my above post on Ms Betty Friedan. She was freaking WGTOW. She was radical, In he eraly 60’s she says we need to redefine what it means to be a woman. Ms, Friedan was like Ayn Rand like really a WGTOW. I respect a WGTOW.

    Ms. Friedan ook a risk in the book “The feminine mystique”. This was groundbreaking at the time.

    I do not think Ms, Friedan will be pleased with the slut walk movement and the newer feminists like Jaclyn Friedman. I don’t know much but I do not see the new wave of feminism as “feminism’. It’s totally different than what Ms. Friedan envisioned.Ms Friedan has my respect. She was a radical WGTOW that changed the world

  61. Samuel from the future: Can you explain your blog to me? You seem to have written blog posts, and then you post them, and then you comment on them, like so:

    Good job your awesome. Your going to help so many women out there who are struggling with self esteem issues, sexual issues, just write from the heart

    Is this really you telling yourself that your [sic] awesome? And just who is Laura whoever? Why do I get the feeling that you’re calling her a feminist because she has a female name? If she needed a ride somewhere, could you give her one, or would you have to run away in terror, covering your boner with your Trapper Keeper?

  62. html fail

    Hmmm.

    Spaces between the angle brackets and command didn’t work.

    Let’s try this:

    [blockquote] Text you want to quote [/blockquote]

    replace the square brackets above with angle brackets which in case they do not show up are what most keyboards I know give you when you hit the SHIFT key plus the Comma, or the SHIFT KEY and the period

  63. Ihiliana kudos to you for the research check it out
    What is Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous?

    Sexual addiction and love addiction affect all types of people.
    Read The F.W.S. Office Supervisor’s Annual Report July 9- Click Here

    Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, or S.L.A.A., is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition oriented Fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober. We offer help to anyone who has a sex addiction or love addiction or both and wants to do something about it. We S.L.A.A.’s have a special understanding of each other and the disease, and we have learned how to recover through The Twelve Steps of S.L.A.A.
    Types of Sex and Love Addiction.

    We in S.L.A.A. believe that sex and love addiction is a progressive illness which cannot be cured but which, like many illnesses, can be arrested. It may take several forms—including, but not limited to a compulsive need for sex, extreme dependency on one or many people, or a chronic preoccupation with romance, intrigue, or fantasy. An obsessive compulsive pattern, either sexual or emotional, or both, exists in which relationships or sexual activities have become increasingly destructive to career, family and sense of self-respect. Sex addiction and love addiction, if left unchecked, always gets worse. However, if we follow a simple program which has proven successful for scores of other men and women with the same illness, we can recover. Only you can determine if you are a sex and love addict. Answering The 40 Questions for Self-Diagnosis will help you make this decision

  64. Samuel: That really made no sense whatsoever. Betty Friedan is/was not the be all and end all of feminism.

  65. “It’s actually Labor day here in The USA and I am off tomorrow so I gave “down time” to blog on man boobz that is why i am here. I’m actually having a blast blogging here. It is fun in a way although aggravating as well. But It is a Lazy sunday night off from work and here blogging.”

    You’re not blogging Samuel, you’re commenting (extremely repetitively) on a blog. There’s a difference.

    Oh and hey, nice avatar by the way, very manly. Not gay at all. Did your retained semen help you choose it?

  66. Samuel 2112: I don’t give a flying fart what you think, nor do I believe that you know how all men think. I’m a Scorpio too, btw!

    Did you read what I replied to you back on the last page about what you said about Betty Friedan?

    DID YOU? I doubt it. Go read it.

    Google “kyriarchy” and learn something.

    I read Friedan’s work (and not just her first novel).

    I was alive in 1963. I have been a feminist since 1982. I have a whole fucking library of feminist theory and literature. I teach it.

    What in the wide green world do you think you have to offer me that I cannot get from my male colleagues if I need it?

  67. Sorry: should not have said NOVEL. Not just her first feminist theory TFM. She wrote more than one, you know. I’ve also read a good deal of criticism of her work by (wait for it) other feminists.

  68. If you read my above post celibacy for a guy makes him feel sex. All that testosterone that energy its like radiant its like a glow in the eyes of a celibate man.

    Mine was always a hollow-eyed, haunted look, but whatevs…everyone’s different.

  69. Also Sam: Do your own fucking research. Kyriarchy is not a difficult word to look up. Ten seconds on a search engine will get you a definition.

  70. * Psychotic or sociopathic personalities: This small group of people has impaired reality-testing, and typically behaves with complete disregard for even the most basic social conventions.

    Also known for having eyes that glow.

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