A mother has branded a picture of Perez Hilton showering with his two-year-old son as 'triggering' to victims of sexual abuse.

Mother-of-one Sonia Poulton claimed he was ignorant to post the picture showing his child in the shower because paedophiles can view it during a debate on ITV's This Morning.

She blasted the celebrity blogger for posting the image because she argued 'who asked the child' for permission.

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Journalist Martin Daubney and Sonia Poulton debate Perez Hilton shower photograph on This Morning

Journalist and mum of one Sonia Poulton, left, argued celebrity blogger Perez Hilton shouldn't have posted the showertime snap

Journalist Sonia said: 'The last four years I have been talking to survivors of sexual abuse and they talk about these kind of pictures online and how they trigger them.'

She claimed as society has become more aware of paedophiles it is 'ignorant' to post such a picture.

She said: 'The thing everybody's overlooking here is who asked the child. Pictures are on the internet forever and no one asked permission of the child.'

Host Philip Schofield accused her of being 'hysterical' in a debate with journalist and father Martin Daubney and agony aunt Denise Robertson, and said the picture only shows the child's head.

Perez sparked an online backlash after sharing a snap of himself and his two-year-old son in the shower together.

The celebrity blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, posted the picture - where both he and Mario are grinning widely - on Instagram yesterday.

Sonia claimed the image was ignorant of paedophiles who will be able to view the image online

Hosts Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby debated the issue with father Martin Daubney, mother Sonia Poulton and agony aunt Denise Robertson

Alongside the snap, he wrote: ‘Our family motto is: #fun! We try and incorporate fun into as much of the everyday things we do! #Bathtime.’

And it didn’t take very long for others on social media to react strongly with comments suggesting the scenario is ‘kinda creepy’ and ‘odd’.

Perez replied to one comment, saying: ‘I had my bathing suit on, and I didn’t feel the need to clarify that in the caption.’

Dad-of-two Martin said showering with your child is natural for a parent.

He said of the Instagram image: 'There's no nudity on display.

'It's a natural part of being a parent and to be in the shower having that sort of intimacy is a natural thing and it's a part of growing up together.

'We can use this time I think as educational. We can talk about different bits boys and girls have and to have these beginnings of conversations about making them safe about what's appropriate to touch.

Martin felt it was normal for a dad and son to be bonding in this way and said the image didn't show the child naked

Denise Robertson, right, said the photo was innocuous and was 'lovely' for Perez to spend quality time with his son

Sonia disagreed with the picture being posted online because noone asked the child's permission and Denise said discussion about what should be posted online was Perez doing people 'a favour'

'This should be a positive thing moving forward and the hysterical reaction is frankly depressing.'

Sonia argued it was the fact the picture was posted online which troubled her.

She said: 'For me it's not the photo, as a mother myself I bathe with my daughter regularly and plan to show her boyfriend those photos at some stage in the future to embarrass her as we've all done as parents.

'But it's the putting it online.'

And we cannot deny the change. 'We have to think about the environment we're living in. In the last four years we have become acutely aware of the issues of paedophiles in the environment and we cannot deny the change.

'[The picture] is not right, it's completely wrong and it displays a level of ignorance.'

But Martin disagreed and said: 'It's not our business to tell Perez Hilton how to parent.

'Every single aspect of what is a horrendous crime now infiltrates every corner of our ordinary lives.

Perez, with his son Mario and daughter Mario, said he would rather shower with his son than leave him unattended

'Particularly with fathers, fathers are viewed with suspicion that runs into primary schools, into the boy scouts, everywhere.'

Denise Robertson called the picture 'totally innocuous.'

She said: It's lovely that he's doing that with his child and I don't see anything in that picture that could offend any reasonable human being.

'But I do take the point that we now have a situation in which people are masturbating over pictures of children on the internet.

'If this brings forward a sensible conversation about how we handle this [posting online], he'll have done us a favour.

Twitter users posting about the show agreed with Philip's view that people have to alter their lives 'because some freak might get turned on.'

One wrote: 'Absolutely nothing wrong with it, agree with Philip.'

Twitter users saw 'nothing wrong' with the picture and one couldn't understand why people were upset

One wrote that it was a 'boy's head on show' and did not agree with Sonia's views

Another posted that Sonia probably gets 'hysterical' over buying cous cous

One Twitter user said Sonia 'was born in an ere where kids shared baths'

Another posted that Sonia had a narrow mind and was clearly 'born in an era when kids shared baths.'

Another said: 'I bet she gets hysterical in Sainsbury's when there's no organic cous cous on the shelves.'

While another wrote it was just a 'boy's head on show' and she should 'grow up.'

Perez faced backlash on Instagram after posting the picture.

He told DailyMail.com: 'Everyone does what they see fit as a parent. Personally, I enjoy putting on my swim trunks and taking a shower with my son as often as possible.

'I'd rather do that than leave him unattended, which will not happen until he's older and I'm confident he can be safe alone.'

Mario, who was conceived using an egg donor and a surrogate mother, is Hilton's eldest child.