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Dr. Jerald Block, a psychiatrist in Portland, Ore., specializes in treating those who've spent years living as warlocks, ogres, or spaceship commanders. He believes that psychiatry needs to do a lot of catching up in order to understand why people get stuck in games like Warcraft.

IDEAS: Describe the people who walk into your office. What does a computer compulsion look like?

BLOCK: Some people come in for trouble with Internet porn. But the computer gamers tend to be harder to treat. People feel a lot of shame around computer games. Whereas, it's socially acceptable to have a porn problem.

IDEAS: You can't be serious. You mean your clients are more ashamed of ...

BLOCK: ...playing World of Warcraft than looking at porn. Yes.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/08/craft_addicts/?page=1

on more reflection this actuially makes sense ..I mean WoW is nerdy in a elves, gnomes and dwarves sort of way..whereas porn is about manly pursuits like watching a beer commercial but with nudity
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