Earlier this month veteran singer Annie Lennox called for pop music videos to be censored and rated just as films are by the British Board of Film Classification. Many parents of young children are naturally very concerned at the exposure of their offspring to unregulated televised pop music videos of which some, in the opinion of many right-thinking folk, are nothing short of pornographic.

Action is surely required but, whatever steps are now taken it may be too late for a whole generation of youngsters brought up on an unlimited diet of porn on the internet and social media sites. Don’t forget that this is an age where the first act of courtship to many adolescents is to email or text the object of their desire photographs of their genitals. How do you regulate and police that?

The internet has proved to be a revolution like no other and is an undoubted boon to many. There is however a dark and sinister downside and I fear we are yet to see the full extent of its effects on our society.