as adults the majority of us can take porn as it is and its doesnt affect our respect of others, but for youths i dont think it is so just as it isnt with drugs or alcohol or gambling ... we need to control this otherwise our youths feel they are adults at younger and younger ages...

mike, london,

Hi and welcome to the year 2006? Or was it 2005?

Tim Harrington, London,

ms, Rachel, i beg u pardon, but actually pornsites were accessible more than 15 years already. do u think the Porntube would change something? i ve started seeing porn online since i ve got a connection (i was 14). I hope i m not a pervert - it s all about usual curiosity.

dieggy, Arkhangelsk, Russia

I learned about the existence of the site to which you refer from an article written in a national newspaper.
Which paper? The Times. 24 September 2007, in Caitlin Moran's column.

Jack Roob, London, England

Early access to porn is a factor in the history of some very serious offenders.Yes indeed well said Geoff. We need to protect our children's emotional growth and future mental health. The trouble is that those most in need of protection from this will be those who access it most.

William, Manchester, UK

The internet is full of free porn? Really? Who knew?

james, Nottingham, UK

If your understanding of sex is formed through porn then not kissing, squeezing breasts as though they were a stress ball and going through 7 positions in an hour will be normal to these kids when they're adults. Never mind the body issues...

Dont you think theres something desperately sad in that?

Fiona, London,

As a mature (very) adult I can use porn if I want without it warping my perception and understanding of the opposite sex. For developing teenagers I think it is different. Porn gets in the way of learning to engage with the opposite sex as people rather than sex objects.

Geoff, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

As usual, this article completely misses the point that the Internet wasn't designed for kids. It was designed for adults. It may have its uses for children but only with adult supervision.

Derek Stanley, Cambridge, United Kingdom

I view these sites- difficult to resist this development. You can see nearly anything, and some of it's shocking. But I've noticed the more I view the more desensitised I become, and I wish it didn't exist- it tempts me to cheat, alters my view of women, makes me desatisfied with my partner. Sad.

Clive, Singapore,

Was this article written in 1995?. I don't see how this is a story - free porn has been available on tinterweb for at least 10 years. It's also well known that the most frequent Internet searches are for porn. Protection is up to the parents and tools are readily available.

Reiddy, Glasgow, Scotland

I think it's time for the reporter to accept the fact that free porn has been at the forefront of the internet since its inception, pushing forward the boundries of the web far more than most legitimate sites.
If such sites offend her so much then I suggest she turns on the parental controls on.

Rob, Gloucester,

Porn is like food for all of us. You can't escape it if you want. Your kids will look at porn with or with out of your approval. The best thing is you teach them what it is, and let them watch it every month if they want to.

Antony , New York, USA

40 percent of people who view these sites are women. So let's forget blaming big bad men and grow up a bit. Also you may have noticed that the women in these videos appear to be quite happy to partake. Those who are anti religion are blind to the idea that morals are the only defence from evil.

J Nowland, Leeds, United Kingdom

Sex is not a bad thing. Repeat to yourselves. Sex is not a bad thing.

kingkerouac, London,

This realisation has only just occurred to the author? We permit footage of people shooting and bombing each other on the midday news, so footage of non-violent sex doesn't particularly bother me. If you don't want your kids accessing it, use parental settings, or better still, buy them books.

Mark, London, UK

Right, so ban your kid from using file-sharing, and keep an eye on the firewall which sites he's going to. Simple.

It is only techno-illiteracy on the part of parents that is causing all this fear and anxiety.

Owen, London, UK

Thx for great article. Filters and what have you are an obvious answer for the young. Proper role modelling another - what's the proportion of married men watchin porn again? About one in two? So get your husbands subscribe to the policy first and then talk to kids.

Fred Caprivi, Manchester,

Kids will always find a way round parental controls/firewalls (i.e. using caches or proxies). You might stop some sites, but there are always new sites and new ways of downloading.
If you have wireless, put the box in your room and then turn it off when you want them to stop. Goodluck :o)

Chris, Edinburgh,

It's called Parental Control settings, it's available on all Internet Browsers & it's the parents' responsibility to configure it (or have it configured) so their kids can't access any site of pornographic content or that allow illegal downloads (as you can't really control WHAT they'd download)

Tom, London,

Get educated. Get a firewall and block access to the sites. Tell your kids that the firewall will log access to the sites they visit and that you will inspect the log files.

tim, basel,

Parents are just going to have to make more of an effort to keep their kids away from adult sites. It's a worrying sign when our political leaders begin to talk like Hollywood luvvies, particularly as most of us view the latter as deluded beings from another planet with too much air in their heads.

David, London,

"Free" hardcore video trailers have been available and easily accessible for years. So why is this suddenly a story?

Dirk Bruere, Bedford, England

Europe is relatively conservative when it comes to porn. It gets worse if you go to Russia, for example, where nudity is everywhere - commercials, ads, posters and magazines. Not mentioning RU internet zone - 7 from 10 websites have sexual content. Whats gonna happen with those kids?

Alex Mesh, Beijing, China

Filters do work, especially on a Mac so you can prevent kids seeing it in your own home but not elsewhere. I will be explaining to my kids that porn is fine in small doses but that it is unreal, makes you rubbish in bed and if you want to keep your girlfriend then probably best not copy the movies!

CS, Sydney , Australia

The advent of the internet means that anybody can get (virtually) any information they want, (virtually) instantaneously. If you have the responsibility of bringing up children, you just have to figure out how to do so properly. You can't "protect" them from any information. Adjust. Live with it.

Thomas Goodey, Cuxton-upon-Medway, England