Ireland cannot address complaints about violent online porn as it is not illegal

'The advent of the internet has exposed children to pornographic acts that we could scarcely have imagined 30 years ago.'

Complaints about violent online pornography have doubled in the last year yet the internet watchdog cannot act on them because it is not illegal.

Last Thursday, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said “violent adult pornography” is driving much of the increased violence that gardaí are seeing in sexual assaults on women. He said this material is, in effect, “unregulated” and “unpoliced” and easily accessible to anyone with internet.