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These recent news items are added as and when found. If you find any other pieces from around the world that seem appropriate please send the url link to the email address: lostinwood@yahoo.com CP80 Internet Channel Initiative
The Internet Channel Initiative developed by the CP80 Foundation is working towards establishing a new web structure and ethos, which provides different portals or channels according to content. Community Ports would be for content that is suitable for everyone, including children. This would operate differently to filtering, and would be effectively monitored by specialised software and the community of users themselves. With the provision of effective access controls, monitoring and sanctions, the web will begin to be liberated from its current moral anarchy.
This excellent paper explores the origins, characteristics and treatment of sexual addiction from a broad, yet deep perspective. There is an interesting distinction between "shame" and "guilt" and its implications for therapy.Art Morality and Censorship by Irving Kristol
This well-argued and written essay challenges our liberalism in relationship to porn and censorship.
This page gathers together modern research into the biochemical and neurological pathways associated with addiction.Articles from Virtual-Addiction (Dave Greenfield)
"...dedicated to providing services, information, and resources on e-behavior and Internet addiction in the workplace, our families and in the community."Females and Sex Addiction: Myths and Diagnostic Implications
Marnie C. Ferree discusses the myths that have tended to downplay the phenomenon of sex addiction amongst women, and proposes appropriate diagnostic tools.(This document, originally published in Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity (vol 8, 2001) requires a pdf reader to view it.)Pornography and adolescents
This article by Rachel Bell, in the Guardian Newspaper, looks at the availability, accessibility and use of pornography by modern UK adolescents exposed to mobile phones, the internet and lads magazines.Gay Sex Addiction: a book review
Cruise Control by Robert Weiss covers sexual addiction within the particular context of the gay community. "Weiss defines sexual addiction in terms of what healthy sexuality is not about—namely obsession, compulsion, trance-like-states, and repeated poor judgment for one’s physical, emotional and legal safety. Sexual addiction leaves the sufferer feeling lonely and ashamed, disconnected and isolated—the exact reverse of what healthy sexual expression will provide." Joe KortWork and the Net by Gretchen Hyman
On the dangers of too much internet surfing at work...There are many ways in which your internet and other computer activity can be traced.How Employers Monitor their Computers
A more technical look at workplace monitoring of internet pornography.Back to the HOME PAGE