local coverage of the issue

Letter to Hillingdon local press from someone else. I agree with but it fails to note the Score Group, Trojan and Escort porn photography produced locally. If boys and men see their female peers (esp the Score Group) posing for these sought of things then surely they were provoked by societal circumstance if such publications aren’t stopped especially their website divisions. Otherwise the dangers of people trafficking may be offset by locally developed prostitution and web cam porn as advertised through the local press and Loot Magazine, despite the best efforts of the Police on both matters to fund things such as going to uni or to pay off family debts if people aren’t referred to the citizens advice bureau or consumer debtline.

Protect youngsters from Internet Filth

Where did these young boys learn about rape? (11 year olds sentenced for attempted rape, www.uxbridgegazette.co.uk)

No one else seems to have asked this question, I suspect the prevalence of free, hardcore porn on the internet may well have been how they learnt about this, and why it is a fun thing to do.

If this is the case, we should not be blaming the boys, we should be blaming society for this sort of material being available to young children and we should be asking ourselves if as ‘responsible adults’ we really shouldn’t be doing something to protect them from it.

If you have an internet connection in your home, it is really very difficult to keep this damaging porn out. Kids are so computer literate that they often know more than their parents. And many parents do nothing at all because they don’t know how.

There are no UK ISP’s, to my knowledge, that currently offer a broadband connection where porn is filtered out at their end, therefore providing a safe internet connection for families.

Parental content filtering software that some parents rely on is actually very easy to circumvent.

There has been much talk of the ‘criminal age of responsibility’ and whether these boys are aware of the difference between right and wrong in relation to the crime of which they have been convicted.

Adult males are eventually convinced, if they watch enough of it on internet porn sites, that rape and violence towards women is ok.

So if this material can influence adults, what is it going to do to children?

I think it is vital to determine, if these boys did view internet porn and if this is where they learned about rape.

They need appropriate counselling to re-educate them about what they sae and help them to understand that it was wrong. If this issue is not tackled then there is little hope for the boys concerned and even less for all the young girls out there who could be future rape victims.

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