People will have seen that an un-named MP was caught looking at porn in the House of Commons.

The story could just fade away, but I hope it doesn't, because this is an opportunity to put porn addiction on the political agenda. Only a porn addict, would do something so reckless as looking at porn while they are at work and especially in a place where they can be easily seen by other people.

I hope that this MP doesn't just make the usual excuses, like "I downloaded it accidentally", or "I just clicked on a link that somebody sent me, I didn't realise it was porn". I hope that instead, they come out and admit they are addicted to porn. Then I hope they declare that they are going to campaign for porn addiction to be treated like alcohol, drugs, or gambling addiction. Porn is the fastest growing addiction and internet porn is the crack cocaine of porn addiction, but at the moment it is still underground. The full scale of the problem is unknown. The number of addicts is unknown and as a result, there is no treatment available on the NHS.

That needs to change and it is going to take somebody very high profile to come out and admit to being an addict, in order for the authorities to wake up to what is happening and do something about it. If we just get the usual rubbish, about how the online safety bill is going to stop people accessing porn and magically solve all societies problems, then this opportunity will have been missed, but for now there is still a chance that something good  will come from this story.