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I'd have a "sex addiction" too with his looks and money


All men would. The only reason I'd need therapy would be to wipe the Joker grin off my face.

Sex addiction? Give me a break.

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So if you were goodlooking and could afford hookers every day, you would willingly develop a debilitating addiction?

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Right, because you wouldn't be short of offers from women.

I feel sorry for ugly men.







Ashmi any question

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i dont feel b ad for brandon hes good looking successful well paid lives in a nice place well hung and doesnt have a problem at all pullimg primo tail .That's the problem when you have someone like mcqueen who is a nerd and probably a closet case who just never was that guy that could get the attention of the opposite or the same sex .He's the polar opposite of brandon who didnt have a addiction he just needed to grow the fucq up he was a man child dealing with grown up issues like a child .

character is habitual action, we are what we do habitually.

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I often wonder if some people (like you, kidjay) truly saw the film when I read comments like this. If you're good looking and successful you have no problem at all, that's what you say. And you didn't see anything beyond the surface of Brandon's life, did you? You didn't wonder why he doesn't want to see his sister, why his life collapses and he breaks down when she suddenly appears in his life. You didn't wonder why he so compulsively looks for sex, under every form, but he can't perform with the only woman who shows him tenderness. Okay. Nice way to watch movies, now go back to Fast and Furious.

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You are wasting your time trying to explain things to these morons. I often wonder why these people even bother watching films that require thinking.

have a drink twat-
Helmut Berger, "Mad Dog Killer"

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His explanation of the "four month" relationships he has, epitomizes me fully, I stay in shape, but won't brag about how handsome I am.. But I always break everything off after a short time, I think the sex does get boring, and there is so many women around to tempt us.
Looks could be a part of that, because it makes you super picky, and it's available to choose women.. But I do think I could settle down eventually, as great as it is to have lot's of women in your 20's-30's.. You don't want to be the lonely 65yr old dude, where you either have a solid marriage, or are lonely, women aren't as willing to dance around with an older guy.. Not to mention women if they want kids, are cut off at 35-40yrs old, so be a player with no kids, and lonely and old later, or find the right one at 40yrs old...
That being said having lots of women, I still won't do that gay stuff, or ever "pay" for sex like this character did.

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must be nice for you

I'm a contradiction 

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Could be for you too, just get in solid shape, and don't be douchey to girls, play hard to get sometimes..

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Wow, OP you clearly missed the point of this film. In fact I think you should stick to your day job. Addiction is not a laughing matter no matter how good looking or rich a person is. And if you think sex if everything then you clearly have missed the real meaning of life. But I know, I know, you were just trying to make a joke.

Always look for the positive in every situation.

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thats the first thing you'd say "loads of sex, yeah!!" and I think to a poit you're joking, but this sex thing is seen to be a problem in that it invades his work, his life (all the porn he has stashed) and at the end it is so totally out of control he's in gay bars and paying for threesomes, but he's never happy. his life is out of control, and yet no friends, no family, no joy at being around people that like him

I'm a contradiction 

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Anonymous sex in excess is disgusting. After a while it erodes your soul and makes you feel profoundly alienated from the human race. Notice in the film, he couldn't even get it up with the one woman that he actually knew; he could only have sex with complete strangers. Believe me it is a sickness that can destroy someone. This film shows this effectively.

have a drink twat-
Helmut Berger, "Mad Dog Killer"

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