Monday, February 22, 2010

Thoughts on Tiger Woods

Here are my thoughts on Tiger Woods. First, why are you apologizing to me? You, in no way, affect me or my family. I don't need an apology. While I think you have made some significant mistakes in your personal life, it's your life. Screw it up if you wish.

Second, is there such a thing as sex addiction that needs sex therapy? Or is admitting you have a "sex addiction" a way of blaming some physical or mental flaw you were born with, and thus couldn't have avoided, even if you tried. It's the latter. Animals can't be addicted to sex. And if they could, why didn't I ever date one?

5 comments:

Scooter said...

I'm not interested enough to actually do a Google search for details, but I always wonder if "sex addiction" doesn't go hand-in-hand with some other addiction: pills, alcohol, whatever. I suspect that once you're indulging in some addiction that dulls your self-restraint, the sex-addiction could be a natural outflow.

Then again, I always figure you can get addicted to anything. I once heard someone (on the radio, not in person at work) discussing masturbation addiction. Their definition was if you were already thinking about the next time before you were even done with the current act. That can probably be applied to sex as well - if you're addicted to the hormone rush and/or some aspect of the act, and you're already thinking ahead to how you're going to get that next "fix" in coitus, then you've probably got a real problem. However, I agree with your suspicion that most sex addicts have a very loose definition that doesn't approach that level and that they're instead using it as an excuse to justify behavior they purposefully decided to indulge.

David said...

well said scooter

Mac Noland said...

"However, I agree with your suspicion that most sex addicts have a very loose definition that doesn't approach that level and that they're instead using it as an excuse to justify behavior they purposefully decided to indulge." - exactly. This is my primary point. The addiction clinics are way to pay yourself back into being morally accepted.

David said...

Woops, I see my link was not a link.

Same deal, different guy

David said...
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