Lycos happy to peddle porn to kids

Pictures of explicit sexual acts are being made readily available to kids by internet portal Lycos - and the company doesn't seem to care.

The pictures, which replace the operator logos on mobile phone screens, clearly depict all manner of sexual acts and a number of pornographic poses, which can all be bought from a premium rate phone number run by Lycos charging £1.50 per minute.

Martino Corbelli, marketing manager at SurfControl, was surprised to see Lycos selling the images and believes they are far too graphic for young children to see.

Corbelli said: "If I had kids I would definitely not want them to see them. Images like these shouldn't be openly available like this."

Alex Kovach, the UK managing director at Lycos said: "Out of the 1,000 logos we offer we have never received a complaint."

Kovach added: "We'll keep on selling the images as we don't consider them to be a serious issue. We think they're not that outrageous when you compare it to what the competition is offering."

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