Diane Abbott, a shadow health minister, will tonight warn that the "pornification" of culture is causing children to be "hypersexualised" at an early age.
At a meeting of the Fabian Women's Network, she will say parents are struggling to cope with the tide of sexual images available on social networking websites and the wider internet.
"For so long, it's been argued that overt, public displays of sexuality are an enlightened liberation," she will say.
"But I believe that for many, the pressure of conforming to hypersexualisation and its pitfalls is a prison. And the permanence of social media and technology can be a life sentence. Full story...
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At a meeting of the Fabian Women's Network, she will say parents are struggling to cope with the tide of sexual images available on social networking websites and the wider internet.
"For so long, it's been argued that overt, public displays of sexuality are an enlightened liberation," she will say.
"But I believe that for many, the pressure of conforming to hypersexualisation and its pitfalls is a prison. And the permanence of social media and technology can be a life sentence. Full story...
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