Porn addict shares the moment he knew he needed to get help

A porn addict who was watching for hours at a time has revealed the moment he realised he needed help.

Speaking to LADbible as part of the 'For F**k's Sake' campaign, Josh Lane bravely shared more about his addiction to porn, something which ruined his teenage years.

Porn has become something of a plague on society in recent years, particularly when children are exposed to it at far too young an age, something which the government have looked to change with their recently introduced Online Safety Act.

Too many young people are being given the wrong ideas about sex, which is having a huge impact on their behaviour, particularly in the bedroom, with one expert suggesting that watching too much porn can lead to performance issues when faced with the real thing.

Although most adults can distinguish between the terrible acting in porn films and actual sex in real life, children in particular are being given the wrong impression about what to expect, and the endless supply and instant hits of dopamine mean that it is easy to become addicted.

Josh is one of many young adults to suffer from porn addiction (LADbible)

Fortunately, in Josh's case, he had an honest conversation with his parents that allowed him to eventually get help, having struggled with mental health issues as a result of his pornography addiction.

He said: "I was just objectifying everyone, and seeing everyone in a sexual way.

"Even though it did feel good and it felt like I could justify watching it, I still felt shame around it and guilty and every time after I had finished watching porn, I was immediately kind of flooded with a sense of shame.

"I tried to be sneaky and make sure people wouldn't find out. I think that led to a really deep impact on my relationships."

Josh was watching porn multiple times per day (Getty Stock)

Josh's sneakiness even extended to using other people's phones or tech in his house to watch porn, having locked his away in the hope that it would help him to stop watching it as much as he had been.

"There was a significant shift at that time, from like 14 years old. I became a much more closed off person that in turn started this weird destructive cycle of me lacking a real sense of connection with other people and the intimacy that we all need as social human beings.

"And so I ended up turning to porn and that became one of the ways that I started using porn to cope.

"It started off just wanting to feel good, but it became something that caused me to push other people away.

"And then it took the place of human connection and intimacy.

"It felt like the only real relationship I had was with porn, which obviously is just not a relationship because it's not a two way thing."

Meanwhile, the government has also introduced a new crackdown on porn that shows strangulation and suffocation, as it looks to tackle violence against women and girls.