Amanda Marcotte: No, Porn Addiction Is Not Really A Thing

[Warren DeMontague]

26. I don't think one needs to be a psychiatrist to grok that Duggar seems to have profound problems

and to conflate that with perfectly normal (and commonplace, as much as some people may be in deep denial over that fact) smut-viewin' seems an idiotic, and deliberate, deflection on the part of the Christian Right Culture War groupthink he's a part of.

And that, I think, is Marcotte's point "communities pathologize otherwise-healthy behavior". It's impossible to say if Duggar actually is a "porn addict" if he's coming from a place that defines looking at ANY porn as "addiction", any more than one can have a rational definition of alcoholic if you lump the person who has an occasional glass of wine at a party in the same group with the person who has to pull the plastic vodka bottle out from under the bed first thing in the morning to stave off the shakes and dry heaves.