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What do we mean by Online Pornography?

1st June 2013

We need to clamp down hard on ALL forms of online pornography, especially child pornography. However ...

In order to make sure we are all singing from the same hymn sheet, we need to define our terms. May I propose the following useful definitions:

Adult Pornography: Images or written accounts of persons over the age of sexual consent engaged in sexual behaviour involving violence.

Child Pornography: Images or written accounts of persons under the age of sexual consent engaged in sexual behaviour whether or not violence is involved.

As a bona-fide naturist, I am afraid of this growing and well meaning anti-pornography movement being hijacked by nudephobic extremists. Innocent nudity is absolutely NOT pornographic. When accessing the internet recently in a shopping centre in Oxford, I was even blocked from viewing the website of the local sun club, Oxnat. This level of censorship is quite frightening. We do our young people far more harm by instilling in them an attitude of same in the healthy bodies God gave them. Yes we must protect them from pornography as defined above but we must do it in a way that protects the underlying principles of our broad-minded, tolerant society.

Jack Cox