• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/10514687/Porn-filters-blocking-The-hidden-cost-of-introducing-porn-filters.html

    I've said it many times before, and I'll keep saying it. Sexual health is not "adult content". Lumping important (and for many young people, the only) sexual health advice they will have access to in with porn is a mistake. I've always supported voluntary blocks installed by parents on a home by home basis, but phone and internet providers need to understand that doing this for everyone as a default is not their job. More to the point, politicians need to understand that making internet providers do so is not the Government's job.

    There is also a concern for LGBT teens, some of whom will not have the support of their families and may have little access to safe, reliable information about sex and sexuality. What about them?

    Maybe internet providers mistakenly believe that good, thorough sex and relationships education is available in schools, but as the Telegraph Wonder Women Better Sex Education campaign has demonstrated this year, it isn't. Sex ed as it currently exists is not fit for purpose. The teaching guidelines haven't been updated in over a decade and make no mention of the internet.

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