Another excuse not to engage

Ian Power of young people’s website, spunout.ie, does not want porn filters introduced in Ireland as it will make just give parents another excuse not to discuss porn with their offspring.

“Porn filters will make parents even more complacent, they will claim then that they don’t need to chat with their children about what porn and all the research shows, they do,” he says.

Like many others in this country, he says parents are avoiding having these chats even though young people have never had greater access to highly sexualised images and videos.