Overview

• Major brands including Visa, Cawston Press and Smirnoff have withdrawn their adverts from the documentary’s online streams due to its explicit sexual content.
• Ofcom is assessing viewer complaints and weighing a formal investigation into potential breaches of its broadcasting code.
• The Independent Pornography Taskforce, chaired by Baroness Bertin, is drafting amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill to ban adult pornography that role-plays as underage content.
• Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza warned the programme risks normalising degrading and violent sexual acts that could harm young viewers’ relationships.
• Channel 4 insists the film complied with all legal, editorial and compliance checks, including on-demand age gating, and defends it as a justified observational documentary.