'I have always thought I was just addicted to wanking, but I now believe it's the porn I'm hooked on and masturbation is a side effect,' he said. And that if you thought things were bad in the era of corner-store magazines and VHS pornos, then the internet had only fuelled our appetite for sex on film. You don't have to look far to find people concerned about a link between pornography and dangerous attitudes toward sex.Īnti-porn campaigners will tell you it is a blight on society that is being woefully mishandled by those in power.
'It's hard to tell if they were genuinely into things or if they just put it on.' Sexual assault support services: 'I would always pressure girls to do things I assume they'd have never even considered. Some try to be involved, I guess to connect with me more when they're feeling neglected,' he said. 'In all three of my major relationships, girls have felt second to it. The fact it was hidden gave him an extra little thrill back then.īut it's only been recently the now 31-year-old has started to think of it as unhealthy. He had always enjoyed watching porn, the 'hardcore stuff', ever since he first found a magazine stash as a kid. It was around the time Steve* tried to pressure his third girlfriend into making porn that he realised he had an issue.
