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7th August 2018
05:53pm BST

She admitted that the state has "a lot of catching up to do" on the issue.
"Pornography is not going to go away, so we are going to have to be computer literate and ensure that young people are guided through what they are seeing.
"And our beliefs and value systems, that they are able to check-in with their parents and schools to ensure they are coming away with the right messages."
Researcher Kate Dawson of the NUIG School of Psychology said that 'porn literacy' is necessary for young people to understand how sex differs from what they see in porn.
“If we can have an open discussion about it, in a non-judgemental way, so people can understand that there are massive differences as to how sex is portrayed in porn and then the type of sex that people want to have,”Explore more on these topics: