The following report is from Daily Mail:
Working from home — away from the prying eyes of colleagues — has fuelled a surge in porn addiction, experts have warned.
The number of Britons seeking medical help for the issue has almost doubled during the pandemic, when remote working became widespread.
Doctors say having temptation just a few clicks away has turned some casual porn watchers into addicts and worsened those who already had a problem.
The Laurel Centre in London, the largest sex and porn addiction clinic in Britain, says it is now treating some remote workers who watch up to 14 hours of porn a day.
Dr Paula Hall, the centre’s clinical director, said WFH meant people are now spending more time than ever alone in front of their computers.
It means you’ve got more opportunity, you don’t have to wait until you get home at night, you can be more impulsive during the day.
She told MailOnline.
The Laurel Centre had seen about 750 porn addicts in the first six months of 2022 alone, compared to 950 for the whole of 2019.
And Dr Hall said patients coming to the clinic this year need more intensive treatment.
Therapists at the London clinic spend around 600 hours a month helping people with porn addictions now compared to just 360 hours per month in 2019.
Sex Addicts Anonymous UK told MailOnline lockdown and pandemic stress had deteriorated people’s mental health and driven people to porn websites.
Porn addiction is a shame-based illness. We use compulsive sexual behaviour to escape from and block difficult feelings.
It’s easy to see why; sex is powerful and all consuming and unlike alcohol or narcotics, we don’t have to visit the office or see our dealer.
We face a public health crisis with toxic pornography available at no cost to anyone, which is especially worrying for our young people.
A spokesperson said
Dr Hall said working from home enables people to act on their impulses without worrying about colleagues seeing them.
There were an estimated 1.7 million people who said that they work mainly from home in 2019, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which this represents about 5 per cent of the total workforce.
This surged to almost half (46.6 per cent) in April 2020 during the first Covid lockdown, with about 13million mainly working from home.
While the share of people working predominantly from home has dropped since the peak of the pandemic, hybrid working has become a mainstay.
The most recent ONS data suggests 9.9million people now mainly work from home.
But an estimated 91 per cent of London’s office workers were estimated to have worked from home during June’s rail strikes, a pattern believed to have been repeated during last week’s industrial action.
Porn addiction can be loosely defined as regularly spending more than two hours at a time looking at adult material, Dr Hall said.
If you’re regularly viewing pornography for longer than two hours it’s probably not about sexual arousal. It’s probably about escape.
It’s a bit like making yourself breakfast and staring at it for two hours, if you’re hungry, you’re going to eat it, not going to stare at it.
Addiction is a sign of a life that is unhappy and not being well managed.
She added
She warned porn addiction could continue to rise as people worry about the cost-of-living crisis.
Porn addiction is considered a form of sex addiction, where people become dependent on the enjoyable feeling or ‘high’ experienced sexual activity.
Sex addiction is controversial with the NHS saying experts disagree on whether it actually exists or not.
People can seek help for porn addiction via their GP who can then arrange for them to see a therapist for counselling though waiting lists can be months long.
Treatment is also available privately through clinics like the Laurel Centre with sessions running from £75.
A number of celebrities have claimed to suffer from the condition such as comedian Russell Brand, actor Michael Douglas, X-Files star David Duchovny, and actor Colin Farrell.
Dr Hall recently launched Pivotal Recovery a series of podcasts to help people beat porn addiction more discreetly.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[3] For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: [4] That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; [5] Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: [6] That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. [7] For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. [8] He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
For anyone that thinks that because they are not physically participating in fornication and whoremongering, does not absolve you from such: Romans 1:32 explicitly condemns those who “have pleasure in them that do them.” Moreover, consider this passage:
[5] Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: [6] For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: [7] In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.Colossians 3:5-7
It should also be noted that there are a whole host of more perverse and lascivious things in today’s society that are not labeled as porn or adult content, but are routinely flashed in our face’s, and are further corrupting each generation to follow. On top of that, it does not help whatsoever when the public school and modern medical establishments are telling the youth and adults that “pleasuring one’s self” is totally safe, healthy, and natural. In my testimony of salvation on how the Lord saved me (which needs to be updated at some point) – I can assure you that the new conventional ‘wisdom’ is a cunningly devised fable and pseudo-science, designed to promote hedonism and debauchery amongst a nation. My addictions, as terrible as they were, never even remotely got close to 14 hours like these Brits are supposedly doing.
On the flipside, we are caught in a paradigm where talking about porn addiction is no longer considered a “taboo;” indicating the rampancy of the problem. Moreover, there is a steady rise in studies that are continually documenting the obvious physical and mental repercussions it begets, though the schools and ‘system doctors’ are not as forthcoming about this.
This stark rise in porn addiction because of lockdowns is not surprising in the slightest, and will only get worse as the handlers and media attempt to further keep people isolated from each other. But, this is why the Bible, again, warns against idleness:
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:49. And we all know what Sodom was about (see Jude 7)
Because of this continued rise in porn problems, and I would not be surprised if the politicians, technocrats, and handlers seize the opportunity to usher in new sweeping reform, censorship, and internet IDs, social credit scores, and internet wellness scores; under the guise of sequestering and prohibiting porno from the children.
The Coming “Global Citizen” Test That Will Be Mandated For People To Use The Internet
Learn tips on how to prevent and break porn addictions:
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Why isn’t my comment being posted?!?!
Internet pornography was placed on us by the pope and the Jesuits, I learned that from Eric Jon Phelps.
(PS: I tried to post a big comment and twice it didn’t go on the comment section.)
2020 was a harshly rebuking wake up call and also a helping hand to escape my perversion…and I thank the LORD for it!
I struggle believe me!
I compare myself to a country recovering from communism, but I’ve blocked porn sites and I avoid strip clubs like the plague!
Good for you. I wish you recover completely. I have never had this problem myself, by I have overheard some people saying that exercise helps them. When they feel an urge, they go play a sport or workout to get the similar serotonin boost. I use the same way when i feel down or kind of depressed. I use it as a prevention tool, too. If I go through a week without any exercise, I feel tired and definitely not as happy as if I do it 2 or 3 times a week. And all the back pain that comes with…
Singing hymns to the Lord helps as well and also reading scripture. Who can think of it when you are focused on the Lord?
Thanks Cynthia, thanks Samantha, sisters in the Lord.