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Thesis: The surge in the use of porn-centric anti-masturbation has…

- - - - Very similar to Alcoholics Anonymous (cite one of Savelli's Lectures)
    - - The real sex that men are ‘meant to do’ is elevated as a dominant masculine action (to become ‘king of the jungle’) as opposed to the subordinate position of ‘lonely losers’
      - Forum members reinforce the idea that real sex with women is the most valid form of sex; masturbation is held as embarrassing in comparison
      - Frames sex as an achievement with elevated status after the sex act is complete
        It is not the sex act that is important for its own sake, but the significance of what ‘real sex’ signifies; in contrast, masturbation and other forms of sexual expression do not carry the same important connotation
  - - - Western society appraises sex acts according to a hierarchy
        
        Individuals whose behaviour stands high in this hierarchy are rewarded with certified mental health, respectability, legality, social and physical mobility, and material benefits
      - Marital, reproductive heterosexuals are alone at the top of the erotic pyramid; Below are unmarried, monogamous heterosexuals followed by other heterosexuals
      - The outer limits includes both solitary sex and pornography
        
        Considered bad, abnormal, unnatural, damned sexuality
  - - - Secret and private rather than sociable
      - It was the product of imagination rather than a real object of desire
      - It was excessive, going beyond natural limits
    - - Masturbation as a threat to social order which is simultaneously conceived as the natural order
- - - - At times when we live with the possibility of unthinkable destruction, people are likely to become dangerously crazy about sexuality
      - Disputes over sexual behaviour as a mechanism for displacing social anxieties
    - - Akin to persistence of the vice model in explaining alcohol addiction despite increasing medicalization, the consequences of 19th century moral crusades on vices are still with us in regards to attitudes about sex, medical practice, child-rearing, parental anxieties, police conduct, and sex law
  - - - Lead to a stream of quasi-medical and medical anti-masturbation texts throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
      - Shows how the medical community was and still is capable of sanctioning on which sexual acts are deemed as “acceptable” and which are considered “deviant”
    - - Masturbation as a fascinating movement back and forth, a slippage between moral and medical discourses
      - Even medical practitioners at this time were influenced by religious, particularly biblical ideas toward masturbation
      - Sir James Paget, a high-ranking Victorian physician, described masturbation as “An uncleanliness, a filthiness forbidden by God, an unmanliness despised by men.”
    - - Of central importance is the theme that moral regulation involves some linkage at governing other and governing the self
      - Anti-masturbation campaign was part of everyday moral regulation that can be understood as a governance of the self that, in particular promoted the goal of self-control
- - - - Based on individual self-report that their IP use is problematic in some area of functioning
    - - Hours of IP per week was significantly higher for those with problematic use
      - Further, those who reported the use of IP more frequently were also more likely to report that their use was problematic
      - Those with problematic IP also reported significantly more positive and negative effects of IP
        
        Individuals who utilize avoidant coping strategies are not avoiding sexual thoughts but are simply using IP to avoid other unpleasant thoughts or emotions
    - - Sexual compulsivity
      - Experiential avoidance
      - Sexual urges