As a result of increasing public concern over the impact on children of sexually-explicit material in the media, magazines and the internet, last year the British Home Office’s Violent Crimes Unit commissioned an inquiry into the sexualisation of children, conducted by one of Britain’s leading child psychologists, Dr Linda Papadopoulos. The introduction to her alarming 104-page report, released on February 25, is published below. When I was approached by the Home Secretary to conduct an independ…
