Yah, yah.. Edison Chen sex scandal is 100 years old news. But the thing is, whenever I see him mentioned in the Singapore media such as the newspapers.. they always mention about Edison Chen + sex problem OR Edison Chen + sex therapy.

Whether he really have a sex problem or not, I don’t know. What I do know is PURELY BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW so far as fed to us by “Kira” and the media, he does not have a sex problem.

If I’m not wrong, Edison was brought up in Canada. Not to stereotype, but, many westerners do like to take pictures and videos of themselves and their partners and VOLUNTARILY uploads them on the internet. There are so many of these crappy homemade videos that it can’t even be considered pornography - because you can access FREE better quality porn online. No one even give two hoots about these nameless pricks (don’t mind the pun).

Now, one might argue that these westerners (or non-westerners) might have some sort of a sexual problem. Possibly… Exhibitionism? Voyeurism? Attention whorism?

So we know that Edison Chen’s pictures were stolen by someone else, so he isn’t qualified under those categories.

Let’s try to look at this from another perspective - technology and the internet.

If ten years ago, someone were to take thousands of photographs of oneself, he would probably have the mental disorder known as narcissist-ism - He/She is a narcissist that loves looking at his/her own pictures and wants the world to see how wonderful he/she is.

But are we going to label all bloggers that posts thousands of self-taken pictures NARCISSIST? I think most of these bloggers would consider a blog like mine, one void of pictures, to be boring. I think it is the accepted norm now to upload MANY pictures of oneself to the internet - whether on blogs, myspace, friendster or else where.

So, does Edison Chen really have a sex problem? Will Edison and his PR blame the sex scandal on a sex problem? Will people recognize that he is a childish, ignorant, stupid man that, like many others, use the technology to express or collect his “love” for women?

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1. many people ask not to blame edison as he didnt really do anything wrong and he is a victim as well, however, i think it is so stupid for him to handle the case and the way he handle the pictures and the notebook…

   Comment by littleoslo — February 20, 2008 @ 11:32 pm

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