The concept of sex addiction is gaining steam, and feminists are cheering it on. The reasons for this are fairly clear: it is another means by which they can pathologize masculinity. I wrote about the sex addiction treatment scam and why it is a problem recently, but I didn’t expect feminists to come right out and cheer it on so quickly. Perhaps I overrate their powers of subtlety.
In a piece in Slate, Hannah Rosin, former editor of the radical feminist doublex blog, comes right out and calls sex addiction a “feminist victory.” Perhaps she is encouraged by the fact that, according to sex addiction guru Martin Kafka, 95% of the people diagnosed with the “disorder” are male.
These kinds of moves may seem silly and irrelevant to most men, but I guarantee that eventually they will become a problem in family law. It is already standard practice to order men to attend “anger management” for such sins as getting upset over a wife’s affair, and raising one’s voice and insulting a shrewish, abusive wife during an argument can result in being ordered to attend a DV class, whether or not any actual crime was committed.
Now, we can also look forward to men being ordered to attend expensive sex addiction treatment for being upset that their wives refuse to sleep with them. Yes, that’s where it’s going, and that’s why it is a “feminist victory.”
Feminism is largely about sexual power. Declaring natural male desire a disease will add yet another legal weapon to feminists’ arsenal, and they will most certainly use it.
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