Sexual addiction
The shootings appear to be at the “intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia,” said Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen.
Jada Pinkett Smith said she had a "little porn addiction." Therapists break down that label and when porn use actually becomes problematic.
She also said she hit "rock bottom" with alcohol.
Even in progressive films, realistic representation of people in recovery Is missing.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
There's a long history of using medical language to explain socially unacceptable sexual appetites.
Many men who have sex with men aren't gay or even bisexual. Although their mental and emotional state resembles that of the initial stages of coming out, gay and bisexual men go on to develop a gay or a bisexual identity, whereas these men don't.
Ultimately, the Fifty Shades phenomenon is opening up a very healthy dialogue about female sexuality, not just in the therapeutic community and among BFFs on their coffee breaks, but between women who've read the books and their intimate partners.