- Working from home gave the thousands of Britons struggling with porn addiction a greater opportunity to feed their habit.
- In the UK, hours spent on porn addiction doubled compared to 2019
- One center served 750 clients in six months, much more than the 950 per year before covid.
The home office has generated a collateral phenomenon: without the prying eyes of colleagues, workers increased their access to pornography sites, a trend that in some cases it has become a dangerous addiction.
According to a report published this Monday, August 22 by MailOnLinethe number of Britons seeking medical help for this problem almost doubled during the pandemic, when remote work became widespread.
Doctors say that having temptation just a few clicks away has turned some casual porn viewers into addicts and it has made those who already had a problem worse.
The Laurel CenterLondon, the UK’s largest sex and porn addiction clinic, says it’s treating workers home office who come up 14 hours of porn a day.
It is understood that this is direct cause of remote work, that made people spend much more time than ever alone in front of their computers. “There are more opportunities, people don’t have to wait until they get home at night and can quench the urge during the day,” she told MailOnline Paula Hallfounding doctor of The Laurel Center.
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According to data from The Center Laurelin the first 6 months of 2022 they already treated 750 porn addicts, compared to 950 cases in all of 2019, prior to the pandemic.
According to Hall2022 patients need more intensive treatment.
The clinic’s therapists also spend about 600 hours a month helping people with porn addictions, compared to 360 hours a month on the same topic in 2019.
Sex Addicts Anonymous of the United Kingdom, meanwhile, confirmed to the same outlet that lockdowns and pandemic stress had deteriorated people’s mental health and led more people to porn websites.
Porn Websites That Grew Up With The home office
These data are in line with what happened during the pandemic, when with so many people locked up in their homes, the pornographic content industry benefited.
One of those sites was pornhub.
According to Adweekthe world’s most popular adult video site compared traffic from the early days of the pandemic to previous weeks, with global growth averaging 5.7 percent.
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