Another complaint to the US Federal Communications Commission (CI No 829) suggests that dial-a-porn messages can be so addictive that the young need treatment to overcome their fascination: a parent complained that a 16-year-old son made 280 calls to the service offered by Intercambio Inc of San Jose, California in lecs than two months, adding He is now seeing a psychiatrist weekly in the hopes that one day he won’t go out and try some of the vile things mentioned on some defenceless woman; the answer, Sir or Madam, would seem to be to send the shrink’s bills to Intercambio.