When I use the term "porn addict", is the first image that springs to your mind a man or teenage youth glued to a computer screen?

If so, think again. One in three visitors to pornographic websites are now women – and as many as one in five say they are hooked, according to a study by the Internet Filter Software Review.

 While it’s accepted that women are watching  - and enjoying - porn more...

When I first started writing about how parents can look after their kids’ childhoods, I wasn’t prepared for the volley of criticism that would be leveled against me.  Since the publication of my book “Where Has My Little Girl Gone?” I have been variously slammed as a “moral crusader”, part of a “moral panic” and being sexually repressive. 

I am sure there are many educators out there who...

At first, when children see pornography on the Internet, they don’t realize they’re watching fiction.

There is so much of it – and much of it claims to be performed by real people; they assume it must be what adults do.

Any curious child logging on would quickly come to the conclusion that sex is a performance, not an act of emotional intimacy. 

The problem is it can take a lot to undo these...

When I sat down to write my guide for parents on how to deal with the premature sexualisation of children in our society, in many ways I was not prepared for what I was about to see.

Before I came to research the effects of pornography on young minds, I mistakenly assumed that truly hard-core X-rated images could only be accessed with credit-cards and that they were hidden behind...