The easy paths to unhealthy lives | Commentary
According to the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, 12 million Americans suffer from sexual addiction. iSTOCKAmong the many symptoms of our collective eviction from the Garden of Eden are famine, war, sickness and, more recently, gas prices.
It is not simply that beautiful things are hard to achieve, but because they are hard, we tend to appreciate their beauty more. Jobs that require us to take some pains also give us more pleasure, the implication being that by choosing the easy path toward a particular end we deny ourselves and others the legitimately heightened pleasure of enjoying a worthy thing that was difficult to achieve.
The pleasure we take in eating is so much less than it could be if it were mixed with the pride of accomplishment that comes from difficult work. Hunters know that venison affords a particular pleasure when mixed with memories of frost-nipped fingers from the hunt, and greens from a home garden that have taken weeks of labor to cultivate make a salad something to savor.
Here is another example: in our hypersexualized world, how many folks are enjoying richly pleasurable sex lives?
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