Richard Hogan: Porn gives young boys ideas that girls are objects that enjoy being dominated

I work with wonderful teenage boys who are lost in pornography... I find myself becoming enraged sitting, hearing their isolation, and pain. Why do we not protect them from harmful content?

Richard Hogan: 'I have met too many families devastated by addiction to pornography not to write about it.' Picture: Moya Nolan

Last week I was invited to speak at Ruhama’s international conference on Breaking the silence of sexual violence and sexual exploitation of women in the Irish and global sex trade.

During the day we heard the story of prostitution through the eyes of survivors of the industry.