New research shows that the vast majority of
teenagers watch porn, especially boys, and children as young as 11 are addicted
to it.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph today Jemima
Lewis argues that there is no way to shield your children from porn. She’s only
half-right in my view.

Certainly porn is so omnipresent and so
easily accessible that every child is going to come in contact with it at some
point and certainly they will hear their friends talk about
it.

In support of her argument, Lewis points out
that seventy-five percent of children have their own computer and 90 percent own
a smartphone. For boys in particular the temptation to view
porn at least sometimes must be enormous.

However, parents can take measures to cut
down on opportunities for their children to watch porn. Do their children
(especially before they reach their mid-teens) really have to have
smartphones?

And if they have computers, let them be
desktops, not laptops or I Pads or Tablets, and let them be in public spaces in
the household where the screens can be seen.

This really isn’t so hard to do and
therefore the task of offering some protection at least to children isn’t as
hopeless as Lewis seems to imagine.