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This is not another review of the movie. What I want to say here is that I think it's so much harder to become household names nowadays. James Cameron who directed this movie also directed Titanic and it was such a huge movie but I think if Titanic was released today it probably wouldn't have the same impact that it did more than 10 years ago. Nowadays blockbusters are a dime a dozen and unknown actors remain unknown, unlike the stars of Titanic Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio who were elevated from relative obscurity to superstardom, I doubt that will happen with Avatar where the unknown actors become overnight sensations..

Sex addiction..

I just read an article on Oprah.com that deals with sexual addiction, and she actually had a show about that. So as with most of her shows, she had guests on who talked about their sexual addiction and it was interesting that all of them were actually not addicted to the sex per se, but were looking for other things like validation, intimacy, etc that they did not know how to achieve the normal way. The other component was apparently lack of self worth and esteem which would trigger that kind of behaviour that feeds their emotional shortcomings..as a gay person, I wonder if it's an epidemic affecting majority of gay men, since we are known to be promiscuous, but usually it's attributed to the fact that we're men and of course we want sex, but does it go deeper than that? Does it maybe have something to do with the self image and insecurities as gay men both with their bodies and lack of security in terms of a conventional marriage that straight people are expected to have that we lack that is causing it? Causing many gay men to seek security and validation from sex? I think there is a huge possibility it is so..