The daughter of former UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd is in hot water after suggesting "porn for children" should be created to educate young people about sex.
Flora Gill, a journalist, made the suggestion in a now-deleted tweet on Thursday (local time).
"Someone needs to create porn for children. Hear me out," Gill tweeted.
"Young teens are already watching porn but they're finding hardcore, aggressive videos that give a terrible view of sex. They need entry-level porn! A softcore site where everyone asks for consent and no one gets choked etc."
She went on to clarify that when she says "children", she means young people aged between 14 and 16. But her tweet garnered swift criticism and she deleted it shortly afterwards.
In two follow-up tweets, Gill said she deleted her tweet to avoud "getting swept up into another Twitter cesspool".
She went on to say while porn for teenagers isn't an "actual solution", she was trying to address a real problem.
"I really think if someone quickly deletes a tweet, it shouldn't be screenshotted and shared like... just let it die, you know? No? No one else agrees?" she followed up with.
Her tweets have received thousands of responses, many condemning her point of view.
NHS psychiatrist Dr Ben Janaway was among her critics, tweeting: "Has Flora Gill not heard of sex education?"
One person said while they don't support porn for children, Gill has prompted an important conversation.
"While you will inevitably take a great deal of flack for the tweet, you do identify a huge problem; that young children are able to easily access content online that provides a distorted and damaging view of sex.
"I don’t think your solution is either practical or sensible but at some point, we are going to need the discussion of how we deal with the ever-increasing problem," they said.
Gill's mother Rudd served as the United Kingdom's Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018. She was elected in 2010, representing the Conservative Party. She was the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019 and a Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye. Rudd stood down from parliament in 2019.
