Exclusive: Survey finds growing number ‘neglecting responsibilities’ or ‘damaging relationships’ as a result
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.
“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?”
It has changed a lot. It’s no longer just magazines, or getting a physical copy of a DVD. It’s plastered over the internet a few clicks away, with even more brainwashy algorithms to keep people coming back.
This is a big difference from the perspective of addiction psychology.
Why the rise? Maybe because an entire generation grew up with this kind of porn, maybe because there are therapists for this now and it’s not as stigmatized.
Maybe with the male loneliness epidemic it’s even more amplified, esp. for misogynists or cluster c men.
Maybe because porn has also been more normalized with PornHub merch, adverts and giftcards.
Really, I feel like if there’s a genuine interest to know, one can just start searching the web for porn addiction papers, etc.
Or to argue the point of propaganda, look at the BACP, and other parties mentioned in the article and consider how much sense it makes after.
FWIW the only thing that raises my eyebrows in the article is that they want the government to look at the problem. Expected to a degree from an org like BACP, but they aren’t going to invest in community resources. to help with understanding and support first and foremost, and then hold platforms accountable like they should game platforms with lootboxes and such etc… So I’d give them more credit if they offered the direct ways to help the problem. As the government, without direction only seems to know punish, block, ban.
Food for thought, I’m off to sleep and over and out.