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February 18, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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In Natasha Schüll’s book Addiction By Design, she draws on research positing a gendered distinction btwn “action gambling” (men) and “escape gambling” (women), which fits neatly with gender norms. She ties this “feminine” preference for escapism to the explosion in video poker/slots since the ‘80s.
play,” said one father of a troubled teen. In the 1980s, as machine gamblers began to present themselves for addiction treatment, clinicians and researchers noted that their narratives of withdrawal from the world of human relations departed from those of the competitive, status- seeking men depicted in Goffman’s Where the Action Is, Henry Lesieur’s now- classic 1977 study, The Chase, and other psychological and sociological literature on gambling addicts.19 When Lesieur began to study machine addicts, most of them were women. Their accounts led him to hypothesize a gendered split between “action gambling” and what he called “escape gambling”: men were action gamblers who preferred live games (cards, horse races, and commodities trading) while women were escape gamblers who preferred machines; men sought sociability, competition, and ego enhancement while women sought isolation and anonymity; men were after thrill, excitement, and sensation while women wished to dull their feelings, escape distressing problems, and relieve themselves of the burden of excessive interpersonal interaction.20 Lesieur relaxed the gender assumption of the action- escape split when
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