Porn-Addicted Children Are A 'Regrettable' Reality, Therapist Says

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="690a01a6e4b0d65f7022dbde">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb","mediaId":"79b63994-ec95-4c8e-a5d1-668446699020"}).render("690a01a6e4b0d65f7022dbde");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>Former <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/strictly-come-dancing/">Strictly Come Dancing</a> winner <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ore-oduba-porn-addiction-strictly-come-dancing_uk_6909dffbe4b04ad08e1867d0">Ore Oduba has opened up about his decades-long addiction to pornography</a>. </p><p>On the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYTVEMESgCY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">We Need To Talk podcast</a>, he said: “Nine, that is when my addiction started, when I was introduced to pornography.”</p><p>Describing the experience as “isolating”, he added: “This is, I believe, one of the biggest problems we have societally. There is such a prevalence.”</p><p>Speaking to HuffPost UK, psychotherapist Dr Paula Hall, who founded sex and porn addiction provider <a href="https://thelaurelcentre.co.uk/our-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Laurel Centre