Why would a school teacher risk his career for a glimpse of pornography?
Whatever your profession, surfing porn at work is a bad idea. So picture a teacher, in a classroom full of kids, who decides to use a school computer to visit his favourite adult webcam site. He knows that he's risking his entire career. He's aware of the humiliation and accusations that could result. But still he clicks "yes, continue".
Why on earth would he do that?
Writing for the Times Educational Supplement, journalist Adi Bloom examines why teachers might take extraordinary risks to access porn. Talking to counsellors and addiction therapists, she highlights the contributing factors of low feelings, depression, and challenged self-esteem. The classroom can be an extremely stressful workplace, where teachers constantly battle for control and authority.
Psychotherapist Carlos Fishman explains:
Teachers can feel frustrated and humiliated by teenagers who are standing up to authority. Looking at pornography may be an attempt to reverse this and restore any slight against self-esteem, he says.
“By looking at pornography and identifying with the cruel, alienated performer of pornographic scenes, that sense of masculinity is temporarily restored."
I also contributed to the article, which can be read in full here.
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Ironically some of the worst
Ironically some of the worst cases of viewing pornography at work I've come across are those guys that work as IT support staff. (I know because I've done it myself something I'm not proud of, but I got away with it. Something I wouldn't dream of doing now). Why? well its not rocket science really if you look at it, IT support staff have privileged access (i.e. permissions) to systems & devices such as routers & firewalls that other staff in the company or business or organization don't. Experienced IT staff know how to use network systems & to cover their tracks in the literal sense.
**However, now a days my opinion of this kind of behavior is VERY very different. If you surf the web for porn in work time on work systems not only are you skating on very thin ice. Because:- a) you are literally risking your job if you are found out, b) the shame & humiliation of being found out, c) how will you explain your dismissal to any future employer, d) I doubt your last employer is likely to give you a glowing reference after you have been dismissed. e) If you view porn in company time your not doing your job, thus in a sense your stealing company time. You are performing actions that you wouldn't normally be paid for.
WARNING!!
Its very simple in my opinion. When at work do your job and DON'T surf for porn. If you must or have to view porn then do it at home behind closed doors (much safer if you must). Because some employers take a very dim view of an employee viewing porn on company time & on company systems. Some employers will deem viewing porn in company time as a sack-able offense you wont get a second chance, especially if you are IT staff you should know better. Some more tolerant employers may give a verbal warning or written warning before dismissal. i.e. x3 strikes and your out for a persistent porn user.
Hi Alex, I totally agree,
Hi Alex,
I totally agree, and have worked with quite a few IT guys who found it difficult to resist looking at porn at work. As you say, they feel as if they are taking a calculated risk because they administer the systems. This might make the behaviour a superiority/power trip too!
I would guess that if
I would guess that if someone's porn addiction has reached a certain level of progression, it probably doesn't matter what the person's profession is--they're going to watch porn at work regardless of whether their job is particularly stressful or boring or conducive to downloading porn. The urge to watch porn seems to be so much stronger than any of the rational reasons why it would be risky to watch it at work. However, if someone is a teacher or working with children in some other capacity, that opens a much bigger can of worms.
Hello, Margaux once again
Hello,
Margaux once again I have to completely agree with your comments. You only have to search through the press and media to find many men who have lost their jobs or been found out using work computers for viewing porn. And as you so rightly say such behavior is utterly irrational in nature and the profession has little or nothing to do with it. The people who I've heard about are wide ranging from Doctors, MP's, barristers through to call center agents,etc,etc, in fact the higher up and more professional the person the harder they fall so too speak when exposed.
If you use, or have a porn
If you use, or have a porn habit the main person you hurt most is yourself. Porn= digital self flagellation, its cyber masochism nothing more. Porn and denial go hand in glove.
OK! Why is porn such a
OK! Why is porn such a problem? Ans: Because it objectifies women (and men too) it reduces them down to a one or two dimensional object, a sexuality object. Thus porn involves a some what strange process of comparing one object against another object. This objectification of another person means we dehumanize that other person, it means we see them as only their sexual parts or only as a sexual being and NOT as a whole person. Objectification means we can use that person as a blank screen onto which we can project our own fantasies & feelings of desire.
Yet another downside (and there is one) of this objectification of women is that one or two dimensional sexual objects can be turned easily in commodities, products that can be bought and sold within a capitalistic culture. This is one reason why we have both pornography and now an entire sex industry. Porn is an industry and people have become its products as a means of making profits (money). This in and of itself can only exists through a process of either collusion or gross exploitation. Porn does hurt people on many levels.
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