Thursday, October 10, 2013

Internet porn ruined my life...

If you were a teenager in the 90s, your porn came from three trusty sources: magazines shamefully bought from the newsagent and hidden inside a newspaper on your way home, those soft porn B-movies on late-night Channel 5 and – when utter, unavoidable desperation hit – the lingerie section of the Argos catalogue and back page boob-job adverts in your mum's magazines. Besides being ball-clenchingly embarrassing to look back on, it was a comparatively innocent time – the Brideshead Revisited of pornography to today's internet-enhanced Cannibal Holocaust.

That shift to online didn't only make us pick up on fetishes that older generations went to their graves unaware of and normalise hardcore smut that would have Mary Whitehouse spinning furiously in her grave, but also made porn instantly more accessible, driving up viewers' demand. YouPorn is now estimated to account for two percent of all web traffic, which probably doesn't shock you too much, but is an insane statistic considering that's one website and the internet is a pretty big place, all things considered.

 The shift had a bigger effect on some than others – like Michael Leahy, for example; a man who developed a crippling porn addiction and managed to ruin his entire life with just an internet connection and his right hand. Clearly this is just about the most extreme case you could ever come across – it's not like five minutes a day is going to make everyone in your life despise you (unless you have inexcusably boring friends) – so I called Michael up to see how he got from where he was to the author, speaker and expert on pornography addiction he's become.  Full story...

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