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Meet John. His story is an amalgamation of the insights we’ve got from a number of people one of us has interviewed over the years for various different projects related to sex. He’s just come back from a hippy tantra festival overseas. He thought it might help him with his porn addiction. He doesn’t call his problem a porn addiction, but like many men in the UK, if even conservative estimates are anything to go by, he’s addicted alright.
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Walker, C., Hart, A., Hanna, P. (2017). The Joy of Sex. In: Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36099-1_9
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