16 OCTOBER 1982, Page 20

A pornless childhood

Sir: Of course I agree with your correspon- dent Phillip Hodson (2 October) that no quantity of assertion that pornography causes the 'rape of small girls, incest and sadism' will ever turn into evidence. Richard West congratulated Mrs Whitehouse on understanding that por- nography is harmful to children because it `robs them of their childhood'. My own now distant childhood, without the benefit of pornography, was a crashing bore, and I should have felt no resentment, then or later, if I had been robbed of it.

D.H. Cameron

Spoutwells House, Scone, Perthshire