consistently the absolute funniest thing abt doing a technical writing program is being introduced to Tech World Stuff. Hello computer employee. This is an empathy map. It helps you remember that the people who use your thing are people with feelings & thoughts. It's like if you looked at a person & imagined that they have an interior life, on top of just using your app! i've had to Make Personas in i think three different classes so far. silly cone galley is out here making up guys & saying that's business!!! they're writing 15000 articles about the economic benefits of making up a guy who might use your industry disruptive website for Dog Surfing & i have to read all of them & they're like!!!! ooooh this is business this is tech!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is so important & real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! these are my VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS OCS DO NOT STEAL.. EVERYONE COME IN TO THE "MEETING".WHERE I WILL SHOW YOU PICTURES OF MY BUSINESS OCS... WE CAN DO A JOURNEY MAP FOR THEM... maybe think abt which buttons they would clikc.... ans when...... wouldn't that be nice............ life could be but a dream..
im SORRY if i ever make FUN OF YOUR JOB i am just carrying a LOT of STUFF from my LONG CAREER in FOOD SERVICE & being CONSTANTLY TOLD to GET A REAL JOB but EVERY TIME i LEARN MORE abt what "REAL JOBS" are LIKE i'm like FEEDING PEOPLE MIGHT BE ONE OF THE ONLY REAL JOBS WE HAVE LEFT & i may YEARN FOR THAT FEELING FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE
Very grateful for the work that went into this! I saw a couple porn artists on Twitter attempting to scaremonger about porn addiction a few days ago and it made me so tired. Really excellent read!
A few pulls:
There is no official porn addiction diagnosis in the United States. A condition called "hypersexuality," which included a subsection for pornography, was considered and rejected by the psychiatrists who compile the influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
The proposed condition was not approved because the range of normal sexual behavior is so broad that it's hard to define what is outside that range, according to an official with the American Psychiatric Association.
Internationally, the World Health Organization did approve a condition called compulsive sexual behavior disorder. But it lists important caveats, including that it should not be diagnosed based on moral judgments about sex and masturbation or be assigned to adolescents with commonplace, high levels of sexual interest.
Beyond the potential psychological or financial harms, other scholars who've studied online masturbation abstinence communities often find they contain a lot of anger toward women.
Kelsy Burke, a sociologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the author of the book The Pornography Wars, says once someone is in nofap spaces online, it's a short leap from self-help to more extreme, misogynist messages.
"Undergirding arguments about porn addiction is that the sex industry, which is made up of mostly, you know, women who are sex workers, that they are the source of temptation and that they are, frankly, ruining men's lives," said Burke.
People increasingly seek out health information and support on social media. Meanwhile nationally, young people receive less sex education on key topics than in the 1990s. Only 13 states mandate "medically accurate" sex education.
"We're not taught how to view sex as just something that's normal. And we're not being educated properly about anatomy and consent and pleasure like we should, and it just leaves people with empty hands," says former NoFap.com user Derrick.
As an adult, unlearning much of what he took in from masturbation abstinence forums has been a long process, sometimes even bringing him to tears. He's not angry, but thinking back, he just wants kids like he was to be cautious about whom they trust.
"I could have been happy during that time, rather than stressed out and anxious."
a bit that stuck out to me extremely from this piece
In one study, Grubbs found that among people who self-identify as "pornography addicts," the average frequency of porn use was less than 10 times a year.
BRO! How? Imagine believing you have an addiction to something you've done ten times in the last twelve months. Consider all the things you do slightly less than once a month and try to conceive of them as addictions. Are you addicted to sushi? Going to the movies? Buying neckties? Crying?
im reminded of how when I was trying to recover from anorexia my college's All Recovery space had a porn "addict" who was always around and did little but alienate every queer, leftist, or non-christian person who tried to access help, and nobody did anything because "well he needs this space too"
I've felt a certain way watching in the past two or so years as the concept of porn addiction has become apparent for what it is; the normalization of evangelical anxieties around every day human sexuality
i need fangs i need sharp teeth i NEED tools to give people the worlds' sharpest smile