Sex addicts are the road kill of the porn world, claims new TV documentary
A new documentary examines the “epidemic” of porn addiction, including teenage cell-phone users and an oil executive from Western Canada who belongs to the fastest growing substance-abuse community in the world: Sex Addicts Anonymous.
Airing on Canada’s CBC channel, Porndemic will also to put faces and personalities to today’s pornography industry. It goes out on Saturday April 18, 2009 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld.
As the CBC website streams full shows in Canada only, I doubt I’ll get to see the show. The trailer suggests the usual mix of titillating pornstar headshots and dodgy porn addiction statistics trotted out by vendors of internet filter software.
But I’m hopeful of some constructive content too. Psychosexual therapist Frances Emelius speaks on the programme, stating that the alienation that results from use of pornography will breed dysfunction and possibly violence and marital breakdown. “Men keep going back to it because it isn’t working, because it doesn’t satisfy,” she explains.
You can view the trailer here, and I’d be happy to hear feeback from anyone who catches the show.
Related posts:
- The addictive world of virtual affairs – News 14 report
- Channel 4′s ‘Sex Education Show’ is a very good thing
- Online Damage: Porn in the 21st Century radio programme
- World of Warcraft habit harder to treat than porn addiction – The Boston Globe
- Porn addicts: just feeling depressed and powerless with life
Thanks I was looking for something like this, if you have more documentaries titles in the same section can you please post them?
No problem – I’ll post up the details of any other new documentaries as I learn about them.