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Open letter to ChildLine: Stop normalising the use of pornography to children

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Susan aldred
5 years ago

These videos are disgraceful,

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Anne Rushent
5 years ago

Who is on the board of childline/NSPCC that have passed this?

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Julia Williams
5 years ago

There is an important conversation to be had with children about porn, but affirming their choices is not the way forward.

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Patricia Morris
5 years ago

The YouTuber 'Tom Ska' who made the video 'WTF is Porn', has a written disclaimer on his YT channel that states: 'Not suitable for kids'. So why are Childline sponsoring any of his videos - and one on PORN, of all things? Childline owe their supporters an explanation and an apology!

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Margaret Wilson
5 years ago

The thought of my grandsons watching something like this horrifies me. How can this be allowed.

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C G Lyons
5 years ago

Stupendous safeguarding fail from ChildLine supporting this video.

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C G Lyons
5 years ago

Stupendous safeguarding fail from ChildLine supporting this video.

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D NORRIS
5 years ago

What on earth has happened to Childline? It's supposed to protect children from harm, not expose them to it! Their sponsorship of the YouTube video 'WTF is Porn' is totally unacceptable. The serious harm porn does to young minds is well documented. I am appalled and will no longer be donating to Childline.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Children rely on adults to keep them safe, physically and mentally. This kind of content cannot be shown to the vulnerable minds which all children have.

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Mark Nevin
5 years ago

this is utterly evil

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Beki
5 years ago

This is totally unacceptable

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Jacqueline Gartside
5 years ago

I am shocked to the core about this .

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Mark Currie
5 years ago

Stop this abhorrent practice.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Porn damages adults keeping relationships imagine the damage to a child. It’s a disgrace that it seems from every angle children seem to be guinea pigs for things that ruin their lives

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Melanie Gray
5 years ago

Childline used to be an organisation that was trusted to have the best interests of children at heart. Now, not so much. Disgusting.

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Lynne Newman
5 years ago

I never thought we'd see a day when ChildLine was sponsoring the message, 'porn is great to watch'. Civilisation has fallen. ChildLine are no longer fit for purpose.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Totally unacceptable

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Nina Cranmer
5 years ago Featured

As a parent the thought that children can access porn, and even be encouraged to do so under the guise of education, is extremely worrying. There have been studies that pornography consumption can be harmful with links to effects on brain development and impotence.

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Patrick Boyns
5 years ago

There is, quite simply, no place for pornographic material within a civilised society.

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Kate Hayes
5 years ago

Children CANNOT protect themselves from adults who are determined to sexualise children. If those tasked with the responsibility of protecting children from pornographic material cease protecting those children then we have a very serious issue. It is up to those who are tasked with protecting our children to ENSURE that every attempt by those who wish to lower the age of consent or wish to sexualise children through misplaced and misguided agendas is thwarted and stopped BEFORE it becomes a problem. This is the ONLY way to fully protect young minds AND bodies from adults who view children as their playthings and not as the innocents that they are and that they SHOULD remain until old enough to be educated accordingly. Every aspect of sexuality teachings should be carefully tailored to ensure that young children, particularly those under the age of consent are not subjected to unnecessary and/or debased pornographic material. Ideas change but one thing that SHOULD always stay cemented in truth is that pornographic material SHOULD not be made available in ANY form to ANY child for ANY reason.