Beyond shame: tackling porn addiction
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Porn is nothing new, but its prevalence is. Now, some men and women from the first generation with unlimited access are switching it off. When a choice becomes a compulsion, where can people turn?
By Lucy Purdy
It’s a radical experiment that has never before been attempted in history. What happens when photos and videos of every sex act imaginable can be instantly accessed by anyone, anywhere? How does this impact our brains, minds and hearts? This experiment has just become possible – and the guinea pigs are you and I.
Whether you think pornography is harmless personal entertainment, an unambiguous evil or somewhere in between, its prevalence might shock you. One of the world’s biggest porn websites, Pornhub, attracted 28.5 billion visitors in 2017, around 81 million a day. (There are only 7.6 billion people in the world). Around a quarter of all internet searches are for pornographic content, and porn sites receive more regular traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined eac...
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