Hardly a week goes past without someone, often reasonably prominent or respectable, being arrested or charged or indeed convicted of viewing or dealing in child abuse material. The stories are usually quite similar - men who began by casually consuming 'ordinary' pornography, who over time become more involved with harder porn and who finally end up at the child abuse sites or exchanges or whatever they are called.

While the jury on whether porn leads to addiction or not is out (findings are inconclusive) there is little doubt that there are compulsive disorders that arise from porn consumption and which are demonstrably harmful to both the user and his family. It should come as no surprise that the overthrow of all regulation that occurred with the advent of the internet should lead us down this path.

Freedom for anyone to view porn anytime, anywhere has nothing to do with real freedom at all. It is just license, all dressed up.