Pink is the New Black, Internet Porn is the New Crack

I can't wait to hear what Bob Saget has to say about this addiction. From Wired News:

Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction, according to clinicians and researchers testifying before a Senate committee Thursday.

Witnesses before the Senate Commerce Committee's Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee spared no superlative in their description of the negative effects of pornography.

Mary Anne Layden, co-director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Cognitive Therapy , called porn the "most concerning thing to psychological health that I know of existing today."

"The internet is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous, aroused and have role models for these behaviors," Layden said. "To have drug pumped into your house 24/7, free, and children know how to use it better than grown-ups know how to use it -- it's a perfect delivery system if we want to have a whole generation of young addicts who will never have the drug out of their mind."

Pornography addicts have a more difficult time recovering from their addiction than cocaine addicts, since coke users can get the drug out of their system, but pornographic images stay in the brain forever, Layden said.

Jeffrey Satinover, a psychiatrist and advisor to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality echoed Layden's concern about the internet and the somatic effects of pornography.

"Pornography really does, unlike other addictions, biologically cause direct release of the most perfect addictive substance," Satinover said. "That is, it causes masturbation, which causes release of the naturally occurring opioids. It does what heroin can't do, in effect."

So true. I always used to hear people muttering "I got to get my rocks," but now all I hear is "I got to get my rocks off."

Pssst, I hear internet porn is a government conspiracy to keep people with computers down. Pass it on.


UPDATE:
If you read the article, you saw that one of the people who testified was from the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). This group is, and I quote, "a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to affirming a complementary, male-female model of gender and sexuality." In other words, its members are of the belief that homosexuality is a mental disorder. Check out their website here. Or don't if you don't want to give their page the hits.

THESE ARE THE TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO TESTIFY IN FRONT OF CONGRESS!?