Leinster House porn exposé ‘underlines wider problem’

Thousands of attempts to access pornographic websites by Leinster House officials and visitors underlines a wider problem with porn and attitudes to women in Irish society.

Leinster House porn exposé ‘underlines wider problem’

That was the reaction of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre after the Irish Examiner reported attempts to access porn and escort sites were contained among 39,839 banned access attempts between May and September.

According to the Freedom of Information Act files, a third of these cases cannot be linked to spam or pop-up adverts. Of this group 1,619 web-pages classed as porn, 6,423 containing “provocative attire”, 1,047 of nudity, 268 of “incidental nudity” and 28 web pages with “sexual materials” were recorded.

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