The Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has published a new report – “Sex is kind of broken now”: children and pornography.
She says the report is among the most sobering her office has ever published. It paints a stark picture of what childhood looks like in 2025 with an online world that is, in many ways, completely unfit for children.
She says that as Children’s Commissioner, she has heard from a million children, parents and carers. Without fail, they all tell her that the online world and social media are some of the most significant issues facing this generation.
Shockingly, as this report highlights, pornography is no longer something that children might seek out in adolescence. Today it has become something many children stumble upon accidentally while they are still in primary school. It is something that is shown to them without even looking for it on the
same social media sites that were designed to help them connect with other people and be entertained.
And it’s not just any pornography. It is violent, extreme, and degrading often portraying acts that are illegal – or soon will be. Children are encountering violent and harmful material often before they are even old enough to understand what they are seeing.
Read the full report here 👇.