A Conservative MP who stepped down as a minister over an internet sex scandal is to leave Parliament at the next election.
Brooks Newmark, who served as minister for civil society and founded the Women2Win campaign group, claimed the media spotlight had become "intolerable".
The Braintree MP exchanged suggestive pictures over the internet with a reporter posing as a young Tory PR woman.
In an article for the Mail on Sunday, American-born Mr Newmark wrote: "In response to what seems to be a new text-and-tell story I am standing down as an MP at the next election.
"I was the man who had everything. Now my political career is in ruins.
"I have traumatised my family and let down my constituents and my colleagues. Many will regard me as a failure and it is true: behind the outward facade of success and achievement, I have been battling demons - and losing to them.
"I craved adrenaline and risk. Stress at work drove me to increasingly erratic behaviour. My friends warned me that I was cracking up. I ignored them.
"Late at night, I began a series of flirtations in response to approaches from women on social media. Deep inside, I knew I was playing with fire. Now it has consumed me and my family.
"I want to concentrate on slaying those demons - making me, I hope, a better husband and father, and giving me a chance to contribute in some way to the country in future."
In a letter to the Prime Minister, he wrote: "The continued media intrusion into past episodes in my personal life is placing an intolerable burden on my family.
"I have therefore decided to stand down at the General Election. I will continue to serve my constituents to the best of my abilities until that time.
"I again appeal to the media to respect my family's privacy and to give me a chance to try to heal the hurt I have caused them. I have no one to blame but myself and take full responsibility for my own actions.
"I will remain a loyal supporter of the Government and would like to thank the many friends and colleagues for the support and sympathy they have shown me and my family."
Mr Newmark was caught in a Sunday Mirror "honey trap" that used a fictitious party activist called Sophie Wittam to flirt with MPs via social media.
The 56-year-old, who is married and has five children, resigned as a minister after learning the newspaper was about to publish details of their exchanges.
The methods used in the investigation have since been criticised.
Former judge Sir Alan Moses, the chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), said the matter was of "urgent public concern".
A new story alleging Mr Newmark sent naked images of himself to a second woman appears on the front of Sunday's Sun on Sunday.
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