I'm amazed as I read about how damaging unregulated online pornography is to young people and our society. I teach my children how to respect people, and when you meet that special person in your life, to treat them how you want to be treated – with respect.

However, as 7pm rolls around they ask if they can watch Shortland Street and I see everything I believe in unwrap in front of my eyes. Swapping partners; having multiple partners; being gay, then not, but then maybe with a threesome; the jealous killing of a lover, to a main character for many years having slept with most of the others, and really having nothing to do with medical.

How is this able to be played, uncensored, on prime time TV at 7pm? I'm confused about what this programme is about? I'm 42 years old, so if I'm confused, how would a young-to-teenage mind be?

F de Graaf, Katikati.