- Australians say they don't look at porn
- The majority also support web filtering
- But not the way the Government plans
MOST Australians say they don't look at online porn and support the idea of an internet filter, a survey has found.
Just one in five respondents admitted to looking at legal but sexually explicit material on the internet – less than the number of people who said they had stumbled across it by accident.
Sixty per cent – including almost half of those aged 18 to 29 – said they had never seen it, in the survey conducted for ABC program Hungry Beast.
However the numbers may be skewed by modesty, with at least four major porn websites among the Top 100 visited by Australians as ranked by web traffic monitor Alexa.
All four adult sites were more popular than the official sites of Qantas, the Yellow Pages and the Australian Open, according to the list.
Only 6 per cent of people said they had deliberately looked at material online they thought would be refused classification under the Federal Government's internet filter.
A further 24 per cent said they had seen such material accidentally.
Support for filtering
The survey also canvassed opinions on the Government's plan to create a mandatory internet filter for all Australians.
Eighty per cent of respondents said they supported a system to block access to material that is refused classification, such as child sexual abuse, bestiality, fetish porn and instructions on drug use.
Nineteen per cent were not in favour.
However, even more overwhelming was the number of people who thought the system should be transparent.
Ninety-one per cent said they thought the community should be told which websites had been placed on the filter blacklist.
Under the Government's current plan, the blacklist would be secret.
The results echo the thoughts of web filtering proponent Clive Hamilton who last year told news.com.au he believed the current plan was too secretive.
"One of the problems with the Government's approach has been the lack of transparency in the process and that has raised concerns," he said.
"It all seems to be done in secrecy. And the policy, if they went ahead, would have a great deal of secrecy attached to it."
The research was conducted by phone by McNair Ingenuity Research and included 1018 adult respondents.
Internet porn... Is it only harm no benefit?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, everything has its own advantages as well as disadvantages include internet porn. Of course, it really brings more harms than benefits. But it should be made available and not be prohibited.
Let's look at an example. I read a news from newspaper long time ago. It was an interesting news. A couple with phD married for 35 years. But they noticed that the wife can not be pregnant although they did the 'job' every night. So, they tried to seek help from doctor. After a series of tests, The doctor found that they never do the 'job'. The doctor interviewed the couple for details and found that they don't know how to do the job and what they did every night is nothing.
From this news, we may noticed that porn is very importance. They may know how to do the 'job' from the internet porn. From this view, we can consider internet porn as sex education.
Well, internet porn has pro and con. It depends on how you use it.
So, how are you think about internet porn? Are you looked at it before? Haha^^
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haha...the news in your comment is very interesting.
ReplyDeletewell, i have never seen it as I was told that it brings no benefit but only harms.
I dont think internet porn can act as a sex education as there are still many ways to do it.Well, it can be but it depends largely on how people look at it. People may be wrongly directed from internet porn easily.
Internet porn is always misleading people! That is what I thought. Perhaps somebody else can tell me the benefits of internet porn??? haha....
Internet porn.... erm..... sound like "familiar"... hahahaha.... it is quite impossible to prohibit the porn website as there are many people who look toward the porn through internet. It can be considered as one type of website that have high demand from the people all the times...
ReplyDeleteBenefits?? May be some parent who have open-minded will use the porn website to teach their son o daughter about the sex knowledge... may be... i dunno