13-Year Old Caught By Mother Reading “How To Make Sex-Tape To Achieve Celebrity Status”

A mother who found her 13-year-old daughter discussing the best way to make a sex tape after reading an e-book has called on publishers to give books adult ratings to protect children.

West Hampstead mother Melissa Crighton, 45, caught her daughter and a friend reading aloud from It’s All About The Sex Face: A Guide To Becoming A Celebrity, which gives tips on how to produce a sex video to achieve instant fame.

The e-book, which costs £1.02 to download from Amazon, claims you can “actually become famous without even having a talent”.

Ms Crighton, of Cleve Road, West Hampstead, said: “They were reading out the steps in the book about how to make a sex tape – how to produce it, how to get a co-star and how to leak it. I interrupted them and took the Kindle away and I spoke to them and said ‘This is not a book you should be reading.’ I found the subject matter inappropriate. They have gone online to find books about how to get famous so it’s worrying if this kind of stuff is being sold.”

The mum-of-two, a web designer, said: “I think for kids a novel on a Kindle seems more like an app, something you can quickly download. It’s more accessible than going into a shop, so it’s more difficult to monitor what children are reading.”

“The Government should do something where they get publishers to say what is in the book or give them a rating.” She added.