By John Glenday

The UK’s video on demand regulator has called for the introduction of mandatory age-checks on porn site visitors to protect children from being exposed to graphic content after its own research showed 6 per cent of children aged under 15 had viewed an adult website.

This figure was arrived at after Nielsen Netview were commissioned to install monitoring equipment on 45,000 PC and laptops users for one month, with one website, Pornhub, racking up visits by 112,000 boys aged between 12 and 17.

Both these figures are thought to be underestimates as smartphone and tablet visitors were not counted.

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Source: The Drum