Deirdre Dolan on pro-anorexia sites
Deirdre Dolan in the New York Observer delves into the world of pro-anorexia or "pro-ana" websites. "They are places where girls at every stage of the disease go to seek out sympathetic sufferers and feel accepted. But what worries doctors is that the sites often encourage girls to embrace their disease, to lose even more weight, rather than seek treatment. Some of the sites describe themselves as 'pro-choice' or 'pro-tolerant,' and have names like 'The Thin Page,' 'Starving for Perfection' and 'Ana by Choice.'"
Dolan previously wrote a much-linked piece about casual high school lesbianism. After that article appeared, the increasingly sex-obsessed Bill O'Reilly picked up the story and interviewed Dolan on The O'Reilly Factor.
i believe that this is a free country and that we have the right to speak or write about whatever we feel like. isn't there an amendment that speaks for freedom of the press? i know there is an amendment for freedom of speech! besides, if they are allowing porn on the internet, why not allow an anorexic webpage? these girls are going to starve themselves one way or another, why not give them the opportunity to talk openly about it? maybe some of them will actually find comfort or help.
i believe that pro-ana web sites should be alowed and easy to get to because one way or an other these people with eating dissorders will do what they want wheather there was web sites or not...but i think that if these web sites are available then there is a great chance that some girls will find some sort of comfort and insight of certain things and actually recover.
i feel that if they allow all the garbage they do on the internet why not let anorexics speak freely
