Hull MP leads talks on violence against women and girls
Hull North's Diana Johnson is teaming-up with a cross party group of MPs to launch an inquiry into the effects of explicit images and videos
Last updated 8th Nov 2021
MP Diana Johsnon is in talks with the government over pornography and the affects it’s having on violence among women and girls.
A cross-party group of MPs, have now launched an inquiry. It follows Wayne Couzens’s whole-life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.
Diana said:
“Violence against women and girls is a really important topic at the moment at the moment and we know obviously we have the dreadful rape and murder of of Libby Squire and the awful case of Sarah Everard.
“The group has decided that we are going to spend a few months looking at what pornography is today and really trying to look at the effect it has on men and whether that is fuelling the epidemic that we have now of violence against women goals.
Diana Johnson has been hearing from academics on there research into this topic.
She added:
“One of the things they said to us that the pornography of yesteryear that's now really gone and what we're talking about is access on the Internet to really extreme pornography which involves violence against women.
“It is the first opportunity to really look and see what the effect of that is on our society and also to look at the big businesses that are involved in making huge profits through pornography and weather is a Society whether we think something should be done about that.”