Paula, a university researcher, works on it during the evenings, while her five-year-old daughter, Daisy, is just getting the hang of the user-friendly icons. Their son, Angus, who's eight, enjoys watching Dr Who on BBC iPlayer.
As they grow older, Rob will probably install some sort of filter to screen out unwanted images. Except that now, if Angus were to stumble upon anything sleazy, it would be less likely to be something "out there" in the internet ether, but rather more connected with his father's recreational interests.
Rob has never hidden what he calls his "moderate" interest in internet porn, but it is already cropping up uncomfortably in family life. "Daisy recently got as far as typing in B for BBC CBeebies and a site for 'best blow jobs' instantly appeared in the search window," grimaces Paula. "There's certainly no such thing as secrecy with Google's predictive typing. I'm not sure if that's reassuring or not."
Two or three times a fortnight, usually when Paula is out, Rob will surf his favourite soft porn websites. It's not a habit that has escalated in the past two years and he certainly doesn't consider it to be a problem. "I wouldn't think of opening a separate account with different passwords because I don't see what I do as offensive," he says. "I would never pay for it, I only look at the stuff that's free." More...
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