ARE YOU ADDICTED TO PORNOGRAPHY?

Our sexpert compiles her checklist to find out if you are obsessed with adult entertainment…

- VANESSA DE LARGIE

The world has never been so sexualised yet ironically zoomers and millennials are having less sex than their parents and grandparents.

Emails have taken the place of letters, texting has taken the place of phone calls and watching porn has taken the place of real-life sex. And I’m certainly no stranger to porn addiction. In 2017 whilst living abroad, I lost everything – my visa, my savings and my one-woman show. To deal with the stress I would sit in bed and masturbate for up to eight hours a day while watching porn, as a coping mechanism. You still with me?

Porn addiction can be a way of coping with issues that exist elsewhere in our life – family violence, financial struggle and endless rejection can all be catalysts for this much-talked-about addiction. According to an Australian survey, 4.4 percent of men and 2.2 percent of women consider themselves porn-addicts. So, how does one know when they’re addicted to pornography? Read on…

INCREASE IN PORN CONSUMPTION