MANY pupils are regularly exposed to hardcore pornography, with damaging consequences, teachers have warned.
A new poll has revealed teachers’ concerns about access to explicit images and the negative effect it can have on youngsters.
A third of more than 500 teachers surveyed for the Times Educational Supplement survey said they believed that the majority of their pupils regularly saw hardcore pornography with damaging consequences.
One teacher told the survey that children as young as 11 were becoming over-sexualised, adding “they feel under lots of pressure to perform sexual acts”.
Others said that pupils were using derogatory sexual language and that watching porn had led to “awful” behaviour of boys towards young women.