charges. on the surface, you saw in kyung s piece, they re saying it s not an escort service. it s dating. yeah. and there are a lot of these sites. i wrote about these sites in my book, addict nation. and essentially, my opinion is, it democratizes whatever you want to call it, prostitution, dating in exchange for food, dinner and housing. i don t care what you want to call it. it democratizes that exchange, reduces the need for a pimp. eliminates the need for a pimp. and allows women to become entrepreneurs of their own body, so to speak. and by the way, it s not just women. they will hook up sugar daddies with sugar babies who are male and sugar mamas with male young men it goes all different ways. i was wondering about that. yeah, the bottom line is, it s an exchange. it s an interaction. and, of course, the women say
thought police. jvm, do you agree? i agree. listen, if you re going to throw men in jail for looking at hideous porn, you better build more jails. porn is huge, huge, huge. in my book addict nation, you can get into the violent porn and we as society need to find out why american men are so addicted to porn. there is an addiction by the internet. you can t throw people in jail for having these kinds of thoughts. i mean, we don t want to live in a place like china where this is going to open a pandora s box if you did that. there s porn and then there s discussions online of fantasies of eating and cooking women. or does that all fall in the same category? very little porn is pleasant and most of it involves degradation to women and a lot of it involves torture, snuff
i came to the realization 15 years ago. i don t really have to drink. i don t need to go in a bar or a restaurant and drink alcohol. that s not my job. i do it for recreational purposes like most people. i go to a bar and a restaurant, 97% of people have a drink. it could be anything. for me it s more like i love to have a good time. i love to be around people and have a good time. for me, yes, i drink and people know that. am i an alcoholic? absolutely. jane velez mitchell. hln host of addict nation. how many years have you been sober? i have been sober 18 years and if i make it to april 1st,
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i m going to show you a healthy alternative. but first, there was this mesmerizing scene, really, in cleveland this week, where ariel castro was sentenced to life in prison, plus 1,000 years for holding three women captive in his basement for a decade. now, before that sentence was read, castro apologized, but he also offered this explanation. i m not a monster. i m just sick. i have an addiction, just like an alcoholic has an addiction. that got some head-shaking, as you might imagine, eyes rolling. and we ve heard this before, this idea of sex addiction. it made us wonder, is it real and does it do anything to explain or even excuse terrible behavior? joining me to talk about this from new york is jane velez-mitchell, host of jane velez-mitchell on hln and also the author of addict nation: an intervention for america. jane, thanks for joining us. you ve been talking about this