Addicted to porn
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Young male who contacted ChildLine about being addicted to porn.
I first saw porn when I was eight. Lads at my primary school would show me videos and photos on their phones. It was a laugh and I wanted to join in. I then looked at it online and was shocked at how many sites came up in my online search. When I first properly watched it I looked at the images between my fingers as I was confused. After a while though it felt normal and I started enjoying it.
By secondary school I was accessing porn loads of times every day. At school, me and my friends would share them on our phones; none of the boys were embarrassed about watching it. At home, I watched it more and more in my room and was masturbating a lot too.
I downloaded films and images to my phone and watched adult TV channels. I knew all the channel numbers by heart and knew which channels had the best girls.
I hadn’t known anything about sex before watching porn so learnt everything from there. I didn’t understand about con...
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