Porn is more accessible and more fashionable than ever. But its prevalence masks an inherent emptiness, say experts and users. Many believe the men who rely on it are living a dangerous lie.

There’s an episode of Friends – “The One With The Free Porn” – in which Chandler and Joey discover they have tuned into a porn channel. And it’s free. They leave the TV on, afraid switching off will mean no more pornography. By the end of the episode, Chandler is seeing the world through porn-tinted spectacles. “I was just at the bank,” he complains, “and the teller didn’t ask me to go do it with her in the vault.” Joey, bewildered, reports a similar reaction from the pizza delivery girl. “You know what,” decides Chandler, “we have to turn off the porn.”

As a society, however, we are further than ever from turning off the porn. Pornography is everywhere – it masquerades as “gentlemen’s entertainment”, it infiltrates advertising and, in Britain, it will soon be available in back pockets, thanks to a deal by an adult entertainment giant to beam porn to mobile phones.

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