Criticism
A psychologist involved in sexual addiction treatment, Patrick Carnes, encourages self-defined sobriety in his writings, saying that a no-masturbation definition of sobriety is only appropriate for some sex addicts and that bottom lines can in fact be modified over time. Joe Kort criticizes SA for its pro-heterosexual marriage stance.
Roy K, in addition to his work on SA conference-approved literature, is the author of two other books on sex-addiction themes. "Impossible Joy" provides a Protestant Christian account of the spiritual process of surrendering lust to God. Lust Virus provides a perceptive rationale for SA's concept of sobriety and emphasis on lust recovery by showing how today’s orientation quandary is tied in with the "new lust" and evolving cultural forces shaping all our sexualities. Roy K published both books under the pseudonym "Ron J" to distinguish them from SA literature.
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“Parents sometimes feel that if they don’t criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn’t make people want to change; it makes them defensive.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)
“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)