The independent report on pornography delivered to ministers this week ought to be the next step in a national effort to deal with the proliferation of online sexual violence.
There is widespread awareness, too, that much of this is far more violent than used to be the norm in adult sexual publishing and entertainment – with more extreme content understood to drive engagement, as it does across the internet.
While clear-sighted about the disproportionate harms to women, she notes, too, the dangers to boys and men, and highlights the prospect that problematic pornography use could be classed as an addiction.
A new report makes a convincing case for outlawing strangulation imagery – and putting the home secretary in charge.
The UK’s Online Safety Act should block children from accessing disturbing and unsuitable content.
