Richard Hogan: A mother begged me to tell the story of her teen son's porn addiction

It is beyond time we tackled the scourge of hardcore pornography online — and if the EU won't act, Ireland must go it alone

The boy paused, looked at me, and then said: 'Please don’t tell my mam… I can’t stop watching porn.' Picture: iStock

I was sitting in my clinic last week, with a teenage boy across from me. I could tell he had something he wanted to share with me, but was struggling to let it out.

The conversation wasn’t really going anywhere until I said to him: “Why don’t you just say what is really on your mind and we can take it from there?”