FOR weeks now I have tolerated the ongoing debate about the ‘thigh gap’.

Twitter is divided as to whether the gap between a woman’s upper thighs when she stands up straight should be seen as attractive or not.

Images have flooded the internet featuring teenage girls boasting a large gap between their thighs, therefore showing their legs to not meet at the knee when their feet are touching.

Regularly, teenage boys reply with judgements on the girl’s body.

It is believed that the bigger the thigh gap, the more desirable a girl is.

I don’t have a thigh gap, and I don’t want one, but I’m in the minority.

Teenage girls are being exposed to these photos on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook.

They’re everywhere, and they seem to become more and more toxic for young girls as we continue to let this happen.

A normal body shape has become distorted, and girls are looking in the mirror and seeing an unattractive person in front of them, just because they don’t match the unrealistic images they see on the internet.

All of a sudden, curves are no longer desirable.

The healthy, formerly attractive boobs and bum seem to pale in comparison to boys’ lust after a girl with a thigh gap.

Often, these girls look emaciated – too thin for their own good.

These photos are poisonous for young people, girls are driving themselves towards unachievable goals and boys have unrealistic ideals of the female body; their dream girl simply doesn’t exist.

I would never want young boys to feel disappointed that their future girlfriends look nothing like what they judge to be the ideal.

It’s crazy that beautiful, curvy girls like Kelly Brook and Kim Kardashian are being judged as fat.

I know it’s a case of freedom of expression, to stop someone from broadcasting their views could be a dangerous move, but I would argue that these views do so much more harm than good.

Twitter and Instagram should warn users about posting photos and should understand that a large percentage of their users are impressionable young people.

What they see on Twitter and Facebook should be closely monitored.