Jerry Barnett from WeConsent.org successfully defends pornography on an ITN online debate against Gail Dines. Watch it here.
The government of Iceland has opened a consultation process into whether violent pornography should be banned completely. VoR's Tim Ecott asked Halla Gunnarsdottir, political adviser to the interior minister, why the Icelandic government was so concerned.
With a population of just over 300,000 people, the island has a reputation for high levels of social care and a tight-knit sense of community.
This at the matter of concern because the mainstream porn Internet today it’s not just a sexually explicit material or a set of images of people having sex but it’s a very violent and degrading material.
So it’s very much the idea that the Government in Iceland is wanting to consider - whether this very violent, what you would call hard-core pornography, is likely to be affecting the minds of young Icelanders?
Young people in Iceland view more pornography on the internet than those in other countries, according to a University of Akureyri study of eight countries.
Researchers explored internet use of fifteen and sixteen year old students.
According to the research findings, young people mostly access the internet via their laptops, computers, and phones and therefore have the option of searching privately, ruv.is reports.
Kjartan Ólafsson, lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Akureyri, Kjartan Ólafsson, says that Icelandic children appear to be more “active” in their viewing of content than those in the other countries studied.