Reuters reported that actor David Duchovny has entered a facility for treatment of sex addiction. Yep, that’s what they said. As anyone who breathes air must know, Duchovny won the Golden Globe Award for Best Comic Actor for playing a writer with both writers’ block and sex addiction on the Showtime series, “Californication.”
When Californication first appeared on Showtime, the series was pilloried by offended reviewers who found his character particularly loathsome and the show itself mean spirited and exploitative. I am paraphrasing here, but you get the point. Later on, at least some of the more broad minded critics saw the merits of the show and changed their minds. I loved the show from its first episode and thought it the right mix of quirky comedy and substantial delving into human complexity in romantic relationships. In short, it reminded me of a lot of people I knew, and the show, indeed, mirrored their behavior.
So now I have to wonder in this case did life imitate art or art imitate life. Was Duchovny nursing this sexual addiction for any length of time, and did it serve to inspire the show. Or did the show somehow inspire the kind off brain waves that compelled him to become a sexual addict?
While I understand that all things should be measured in moderation, and in the case of sex there should be at least a modicum of restraint. It’s one thing when you are very young and very frisky, when the hormones are surging and ED and the relevance ofViagra commercials are the last thing on your mind. But when you get older, you are supposed to cool it at least somewhat. Not too much, because as a recent blog attests, if you don’t use it you may use it, meaning that sexual capability.
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We will have sex at the risk of incurring fatal and debilitating diseases. We will have sex with animals, vegetables and wet sand. We will have sex at the risk of losing spouse, friends and material possessions. We will have sex in the face of public humiliation. We will have sex knowing in the aftermath we may be facing a painfully uncomfortable set of circumstances. It is our deepest impulse, our greatest urge.
So then, how do you claim addiciton for our deepest impulse? I realize in the civilized world we should demonstrate restraint and not risk the destruction of our families and our very lives. We should be restrained enough not to embarrass ourselves and to not appear like sluts and pigs. We should be coy and mannered, and above all discriminating. But we are not.
So poor David Duchovny. He makes a good living from a show about sexual addiction and then finds himself penalized for imitating the character that one him acclaim. It’s a tough world out there. And tougher with your zipper open.