The Scottish Mail on Sunday

Price of ignoring online porn

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THIS week’s Ofsted report on sexual harassment in schools was grim reading. Behaviours unthinkabl­e in my day have become ‘normalised’. Rape jokes, up-skirting, the sharing of explicit photos, lewd conduct in class are routine; and more and more young girls are being asked – or in some cases forced – to perform extreme sex acts. The reason for this is quite simple to my mind: online pornograph­y. Talk to any teenage girl and they all say the same thing: boys watch hardcore material from a very young age – in some cases while still at primary school – and it informs the way they not only view girls, but also how they see sex. Pornograph­y is a world that humiliates and violates women yet successive government­s have refused to do anything about it. Now we see the outcome: an entire generation corrupted and young people who maybe will never know the joy of ordinary, healthy relationsh­ips.

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