# Man wants to marry his porn-filled computer, draws parallel to gay marriage **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 9, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084 "2014-05-09T21:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/1 "2014-05-09T21:43:35Z")
A Florida man addicted to porn has [filed suit to marry his computer](http://www.thefix.com/content/man-addicted-porn-moves-marry-his-computer), claiming that it’s really no different to legalizing gay marriage. > [@](#): > > In his 24-page motion he argued that if gay couples “have the right to marry their object of sexual desire, even if they lack corresponding sexual parts, then I should have the right to marry my preferred sexual object.” The smacky-head emoticon doesn’t even come close to expressing any right-thinking person’s opinion of this yahoo. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/2 "2014-05-09T21:50:39Z")
Well at least he is merely insane and stupid and not a bigot. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/3 "2014-05-09T21:52:38Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > A Florida man As always, these three words explain everything. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/4 "2014-05-09T22:00:38Z")
Following his own logic, he should be arrested for statutory rape as he clearly admits the Apple was a recent purchase. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/5 "2014-05-09T22:02:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > As always, these three words explain everything. HA! (Come to think of it, that’s pretty much spot-on.) ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/6 "2014-05-09T22:03:43Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > Following his own logic, he should be arrested for statutory rape as he clearly admits the Apple was a recent purchase. Not only that, but this is not his first rodeo. > [@](#): > > Sevier has before been banned from practicing law in Tenessee in 2011 for “mental infirmity or illness” and has a history of similarly strange suits, including an attempt to sue Apple for selling him a computer that brought on his alleged porn addiction. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/7 "2014-05-09T22:38:33Z")
my sweetie is so hot that i had to install another ventilation fan. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/8 "2014-05-09T22:41:54Z")
It constantly amuses (saddens/disgusts/insert term here) me when people reduce gay relationships to ‘sexual desire’. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/9 "2014-05-09T22:48:37Z")
Well, frankly it makes more sense to me than [the woman who married the Eiffel Tower](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2074301/Woman-with-objects-fetish-marries-Eiffel-Tower.html). (Admittedly, that is still not very much sense.) ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/10 "2014-05-09T22:50:58Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > It constantly amuses (saddens/disgusts/insert term here) me when people reduce gay relationships to ‘sexual desire’. Exactly. And what does that say about such people’s own romantic relationships? Not very healthy, I’m thinking. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/11 "2014-05-09T22:56:01Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > my sweetie is so hot that i had to install another ventilation fan. golf clap ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/12 "2014-05-09T23:10:30Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > It constantly amuses (saddens/disgusts/insert term here) me when people reduce gay relationships to ‘sexual desire’. I am not sure that is what is going on here. The woman who married the Eiffel Tower can hardly have been doing it just for the sex, and perhaps the Florida computer guy (if he is serious and not just trolling) isn’t doing it _just_ for the sex either. Sex (with people, anyway) does often lead to deeper feelings of attachment. Most of us do not form those sorts of attachments to inanimate objects, but it appears that a few people do. As for gay relationships, although I do not doubt that many or most of them are about much more than sexual desire, as, indeed are many or most heterosexual relationships, but it is the involvement of sexual desire that _makes_ them gay (or hetero, come to that) as opposed to being just strong friendships. That being so, I do not know that it necessarily follows, just because people often _focus_ on the sexual desire aspect when discussing “gayness”, that they are “reducing” gay relationships to that, or that they think that actual gay relationships are any more “all about sex” than straight ones are. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/13 "2014-05-09T23:20:18Z")
It seems to me he thinks he’s making a clever point about same-sex marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/14 "2014-05-09T23:21:31Z")
Wait, is the computer filled with videos of one single girl or videos of several? Because as far as I know, polygamy’s still illegal. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/15 "2014-05-09T23:26:40Z")
I shudder to think how much jisim that computer case has on it. I’m glad now that its been awhile since I moonlighted servicing & upgrading pc’s. Some computers you just don’t want to handle. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/16 "2014-05-09T23:29:59Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I am not sure that is what is going on here. The woman who married the Eiffel Tower can hardly have been doing it just for the sex, and perhaps the Florida computer guy (if he is serious and not just trolling) isn’t doing it _just_ for the sex either. Sex (with people, anyway) does often lead to deeper feelings of attachment. Most of us do not form those sorts of attachments to inanimate objects, but it appears that a few people do. > > As for gay relationships, although I do not doubt that many or most of them are about much more than sexual desire, as, indeed are many or most heterosexual relationships, but it is the involvement of sexual desire that _makes_ them gay (or hetero, come to that) as opposed to being just strong friendships. That being so, I do not know that it necessarily follows, just because people often _focus_ on the sexual desire aspect when discussing “gayness”, that they are “reducing” gay relationships to that, or that they think that actual gay relationships are any more “all about sex” than straight ones are. It’s in the quote. He specifically said ‘object of sexual desire’. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/17 "2014-05-09T23:34:54Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > It seems to me he thinks he’s making a clever point about same-sex marriage. Well, the may think he is, but if so he’s using a gag dating at least all the way back to the 1990s. As mentioned, he seems to be a recidivist frivolous-lawsuit wackjob with a particular focus on Apple Computers and sex. (When Apple eventually comes up with the iSexbot or the MacLovedoll [Air/Pro] you know he’s going to be complaining anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/18 "2014-05-10T00:05:19Z")
The computer does not have the mental capacity to marry. If computers develop sufficient mental capacity, the issue might become real. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/19 "2014-05-10T00:14:47Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > If computers develop sufficient mental capacity, the issue might become real. If they develop sufficient mental capacity, they may not want **us**. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084/20 "2014-05-10T00:20:50Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > If they develop sufficient mental capacity, they may not want **us**. ☹ 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wants-to-marry-his-porn-filled-computer-draws-parallel-to-gay-marriage/688084.md?page=2)