Ore Oduba on Growing Up with Porn and Finding a Way Out
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.7 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of early exposure to sexualized content and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised.
Ore Oduba is an actor, broadcaster, and podcaster based in the UK. In this episode, Ore shares his personal experience with pornography addiction, which began with early exposure in childhood and continued for decades.
He explains how pornography shaped his understanding of intimacy, how secrecy and shame affected his mental health and relationships, and what finally led him to seek help and begin recovery. Ore also talks about parenting in the digital age, why kids need safe adults more than punishment, and how open, non-judgmental conversations can help protect young people from harm.
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| 0:54.4 | Today on Consider Before Consuming, we're joined by ORE Oduba, an actor, broadcaster, and podcaster, who has recently |
| 1:12.8 | begun speaking publicly about his experience with pornography addiction. O'Rei shares how early |
| 1:18.3 | exposure shaped his understanding of sex and intimacy, how pornography became a coping mechanism |
| 1:23.9 | that followed him for decades and what helped him begin healing. We also talk about |
| 1:28.8 | shame, secrecy, recovery, and what parents and caregivers can do to better support kids growing up |
| 1:35.8 | in a digital world. With that, let's jump in. We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before |
| 1:41.6 | Consuming. Well, Ori, thank you for joining us today on Consider Before |
| 1:46.0 | Consuming. I'm so honored to be able to have this conversation with you and excited for our listeners to hear your story. |
| 1:52.7 | Thank you so much for having me on. I've got to be honest, Natalie, I've just got to know some of your work in the last few weeks and what I've been doing over the last |
| 2:02.3 | couple of months is seeing so much of the work that has been done globally to help people |
| 2:08.8 | trying to navigate this world. And so I want to thank you for what you do, the voice that |
| 2:15.1 | you're giving, what fight the new drug is, is contributing to so many |
| 2:19.4 | people who need the help, some of which don't even know that they need the help. And so to be |
| 2:23.6 | able to contribute to that conversation for me is huge. So I'm really honored to be here as well. |
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