Porn's effect on youth 'is catastrophic': Top Met officer despairs of boys and girls brutalised by extreme films online Chief Superintendent John Sutherland has said easy access to extreme material is corroding the lives of children Said he had been left speechless by the impact of hardcore pornography Listed a series of violent sex crimes by children fuelled by the internet Included teenage boys coolly planning the gang-rape of a young girl By Chris Greenwood for the Daily Mail Published: 18:18 EST, 15 September 2015 | Updated: 18:36 EST, 15 September 2015 14shares 13 View comments A tidal wave of graphic online pornography was blamed for the 'catastrophic sexualisation' of young people yesterday. Easy access to extreme material is corroding the lives of children and destroying their innocence, a senior police officer warned. Chief Superintendent John Sutherland said he has been left speechless by the impact of hardcore pornography available to anyone with a smartphone – and listed a series of violent sex crimes by children which he believes have been fuelled by the internet. These included teenage boys coolly planning the gang-rape of a young girl and forensically cleaning up afterwards, and the knife-point rape of a boy by another teenage boy. SHARE PICTURE Copy link to paste in your message +2 Chief Superintendent John Sutherland (pictured) said he has been left speechless by the impact of hardcore pornography available to anyone with a smartphone He accused those who attempt to 'brush off' the risks of allowing boys unrestricted access to hardcore footage as 'either wilfully ignorant or wilfully stupid'. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Labour candidate says party hardliners sent her vile porn...NHS boob job scrounger Josie Cunningham CLEARED of posting... Share this article Share Writing on his blog, the Met Police chief claimed some of the things have 'absolutely stopped me in my tracks'. He said: 'I am a police officer, I am a dad, I am a human being and these things are happening on my watch. [It's] what some young boys seem to expect; what some young girls seem to accept. 'There is so much that might be said about the catastrophic sexualisation of young people – but words honestly fail me. 'There is only so much picking up of the pieces that policing can do. These are our children. And there is a loss of innocence in our society – on our streets and in our homes. It breaks my heart.' Straight-talking Mr Sutherland, a father of three who has thousands of followers on his Twitter page, @policecommander, attacked extreme pornography which is 'available without limit or restriction to anyone with an internet connection irrespective of age'. SHARE PICTURE Copy link to paste in your message +2 Easy access to extreme material is corroding the lives of children and destroying their innocence, Chief Superintendent John Sutherland has warned (stock image) He highlighted the dangers of 'horror porn' in which viewers 'get kicks out of torture', and also said some young men are so caught up in hyper-realistic violent computer games that they do not appreciate the 'finality' of death. Instead they expect to spring back to life again after an attack, just like their heroes do on the screen. The Daily Mail has campaigned to block internet porn because of fears its easy availability is destroying children's lives. Earlier this year it was revealed that almost three-quarters of Sky's broadband customers opted to block pornographic websites after being forced to choose. There is so much that might be said about the catastrophic sexualisation of young people – but words honestly fail me The company announced an automatic block on harmful sites six months ago in a bid to prevent children from stumbling across hardcore images and videos. The announcement heaped pressure on rivals BT, TalkTalk and Virgin to introduce similar measures. Mr Sutherland, who has served in senior roles across the capital, including running several boroughs, said his experiences have made him increasingly concerned about what young people are being exposed to. He described one case in which a group of teenage boys prepared a flat for rape 'in advance' and lured a girl there. He said: 'Their unsuspecting young victim is repeatedly raped – by one boy after another. 'It is an utter violation of the most horrifying and terrifying kind. 'They throw her out and then proceed to forensically clean the location, attempting to remove every last trace of their wickedness. I am speechless.' Mr Sutherland said that in another case detectives discovered that the perpetrator of the knife-point rape of a 14-year-old boy is a 15-year-old boy. He wrote: 'It absolutely stops me in my tracks… bloody hell.' And during a Premier League football match, he was shocked when CCTV cameras picked up a teenage girl among a group of boys. 'Something about their behaviour isn't right,' he said. 'The camera stays on them and, to our absolute astonishment, the girl ducks down and appears to perform a sex act on one of the boys. In front of tens of thousands of football fans. I am in state of complete disbelief.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lised-extreme-films-online.html#ixzz3lrJY07Ue Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
As abhorrent as the cited behavior is, there is nothing in the article that indicates Sutherland is qualified to analyze the reasons for the behavior and absolutely nothing evidentiary that links the behaviors with pornography of any kind. I am somewhat uncomfortable with a high ranking police official appointing himself an expert and also his self-promotion through his Twitter page.
2 to 1 says its something about immigrant scroungers. Double or quits that there's something about the royals on there too.
Page 6 is where the daily tabloids in the UK put topless and occasionally bottomless models. It's like their national thing to have a nudie pic to sell papers. That would make this article pure hypocrisy, which is one of the things the western media is really good at these days, particularly in the tabloid "news" space.
Porn isn't going away so maybe people need to put down the bong and get involved with their kids lives and teach them right from wrong. Lack of respect for others doesn't start with porn, it starts at home.
I am British, Brad. Traditionally it's page 3, not 6, and it is limited to a couple of the lowest grade tabloids. Not the Daily Fail, which is an entirely different type of rag catering to an entirely different audience. If they put a topless girl on page 6, the English middle class would have collective heart failure. Suffice to say, porn poisoning the minds of innocent youth is pretty much a staple story for this paper.
I've always viewed Porn as instructional as far as technique goes. Amazing the things you learn how to accomplish watching the pros.
Just because similar behavior has always existed doesn't mean porn cannot play a part in the behavior in kids today. Or are you arguing it must simply be inherent and external factors play no part in behaviors? Long story short, this is a dumb statement. The argument isn't that porn created this behavior in mankind, it is that porn is the causing these behaviors in today's youth. Whether that is true or not is different than your argument that since it did not originate the behavior in mankinds history it couldn't be instigating it in today's youth.
Don't blame porn, blame your lousy ass parenting. Blame society for frowning on corporal punishment, timeouts are the rule now. Porn has been around since the Roman Empire ruled.
but not internet porn. 1 can literally sit there all day and discover and watch some insane stuff. This isnt a magazine , VHS tape or a painting.
Alot of you are Dads...If ever, what age did you start talking to your kids about the topic of Sex? It is best for the kids to learn in school, but Sex Education is not completely accurate and schools struggle in talking about it. How did some of you parents go about if if ever with your kids?
So perhaps, rather than lip service, those making the argument should provide some evidence rather than the publicity grabbing police chief's uneducated, unsupported opinion.
When my kids get to that age (oldest turns 5 soon) that we need to have the talk I plan on explaining sex and birth control and the biology, emotion, ect... I'm sure it will be awkward but if you can't handle having a real and truthful conversation about sex with your kids, you aren't doing your job as a parent.
