Are relationship problems because of porn common?
We would say that a problem with porn is almost exclusively a male thing. In our practice we have never seen a woman who was addicted to porn or who preferred it to having sex with a partner. But we have received a lot of complaints from women who are distressed that their male partners no longer want to make love to them, preferring to spend hours wanking in front of porn. This is a worrying trend, and we are not alone in our concerns. Various experts from Relate and the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapy (COSRT), formerly the British Association of Sexual and Relationship Therapy, have reported that solitary use of porn is a huge factor in relationship breakdown and that it is ‘spiralling out of control’.