SIR – While having a coffee in an Ilkley cafe this week, I couldn’t help notice the effort young girls take in their appearance.

I felt sympathy with the peer pressure they must feel to be unnaturally tanned, false-eyelashed and straightened/highlighted/ ringletted hair. Presumably this is for the attention of the opposite sex.

It started me wondering if these young women are trying to meet the ideals of young men who have grown up on a diet of internet pornography.

Who can blame teenage pubescent males fuelled by their burgeoning sex hormones, being drawn like stupefied zombies towards their computer screens and watching the tantalising scenes before them?

It must be demoralising for regular girls to know they can never fully compete with a fictionalised fantasy doll-like woman.

Dr M Barrett, Ben Rhydding Drive, Ilkley