"More than half of therapists who work with men with addiction have noticed a rise in out of control porn use over the past year, according to new data. Experts are urgently calling for a national strategy on pornography as a total of 53% of therapists surveyed by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) said they had seen a rise in people seeking help for problematic pornography use that was interfering with their life or driving them to seek out more extreme content."
"Dr Paula Hall, an expert in sex and porn addiction, called for the government to urgently look at the problem of porn addiction something that affects significant numbers of people of all ages and genders and its effects on society more widely. We desperately need to really understand and evaluate and assess what the economic costs are to society of porn in terms of addiction, in terms of men's mental health"
"to deal with the problem. Not an anti-porn crusade, that's absolutely not it, but actually understanding that for some people, a significant number of people, porn does lead to harms. And how do we actually begin to do something and address that? One of the biggest issues was the levels of shame and stigma associated with porn use that creates a sense of growing"
More than half of therapists working with men with addiction reported an increase in out-of-control pornography use over the past year. Fifty-three percent of BACP-surveyed therapists saw more people seeking help for problematic pornography use that interfered with life or led to seeking more extreme content. Nearly 3,000 therapists and counsellors reported clients neglecting responsibilities and damaging relationships, with some presenting physical sexual problems such as erectile dysfunction after referrals from NHS sexual health clinics. Experts call for an urgent national strategy to assess societal and economic costs, develop youth resources, and address shame and stigma.
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