Congress hears how porn is now a global issue

Watching pornographic material on the Internet is now a global addiction fuelled in recent years by a large number of people looking at X-rated material online while at work.

That was the claim made at a congress examining medicine and therapies for sexual issues in Salzburg by a German expert at the weekend.

Berlin-based Dr Christoph Ahlers whose clinic advises couples on sexual issues said that there were already 60 million people looking on a daily basis at the world’s largest free porn website – adding: “Two thirds of the visits are made by people at work.”

He added: “Modern viewing of porn is no longer something in which strange individuals are engaged in in quiet rooms at video booths. It is now a worldwide phenomenon. Sixty million views of which two thirds are people sitting at their computer at work is a powerful indicator of what is happening. The second peak is from viewers at home after midnight.”