Singapore Poly survey shows 62% of youths have visited porn websites
By Johnson Choo, Channel NewsAsia

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SINGAPORE: A new survey has found that almost two-thirds of Singapore's youths have come into contact with pornography on the internet.
The revelation comes just a week after 17 boys from Kent Ridge Secondary School were caught with porn VCDs.
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There's no doubt young Singaporeans are comfortable in cyber space.
The latest figures show an incredible 96 percent of people aged 15 to 29 have an email account.
But being free and easy on-line also means there's a greater chance of stumbling across sites that are officially frowned upon.
And figures from the Singapore Polytechnic survey back that up.
It reveals more than 80% of the youths surveyed found it easy to view content considered objectionable including violence, racism and pornography.
The poll of 800 people also found 62% have actually checked out a pornographic website.
Perhaps not surprisingly, more than 70% are males.
Norman Phua, a student involved in the survey, said: "I guess it's just somehow more natural for males to want to visit pornographic websites because males are males."
Said another student Tan Wei Qi: "Males have this natural tendency to be interested in such things, and being hot-blooded youngsters, you might be more interested in such material online. Furthermore there will also be the factor of peer pressure."
A third student also involved in the survey, Ho Sie Sie, said: "The society is generally conservative, so there will be a natural curiosity among the teenagers to go into such sites and view the content. Because some of their parents may not be willing to share these information with them, so they may be curious."
And just how do people find this sort of thing?
Search engines are powerful tools that can help internet users find information that they need.
But these are also tools commonly used by youths to search for pornography.
Since nearly 80% of the youths gain access to the internet from home, the Singapore Poly feels that more can be done beyond using technology to ban access.
And there's no doubt the internet is here to stay.
The Poly's Director of the School of Business, Maheantharan, said: "We can't stop what's happening at home. So the key I think is education. How can we do it? We can do it by explicitly talking it in the classes.
"The other thing we ought to also do is to educate parents. As you can see from the survey, they access it from home, so parents ought to be aware that this is happening, and probably be educated on what to do to avoid, and also to educate the kids at home. So it should be a partnership." - CNA