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发表于 2007-5-27 00:32:28| 字数 3,702| - 澳大利亚
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/05/25/1179601669066.html
RECORD numbers of Australians are visiting pornographicwebsites, including sexually explicit dating sites - and one inthree of them is a woman.
Surprising new figures show more than one-third of internetusers visited an adult website at least once in the first threemonths of this year.
Almost one in five was under 18, and 5 per cent were 65 orover.
The data, provided to the Herald by Nielsen NetRatings/NetView, a world leader in internet analysis, reveals 4.3million Australians viewed pornography or visited a sex-orientedmatchmaker site on the internet at least once in the quarter endingin March. This was 35 per cent of all those who used the internetin that period.
In March alone, 2.7 million Australians went to an online adultwebsite, an increase of half a million in 18 months, or 23 percent. The richer people were, the more likely they were to haveviewed a pornographic site.
Australian psychologists and relationship counsellors sayinternet pornography is a new and growing cause of relationshipstrife and breakdown as increasing numbers of men become compulsiveusers.
Brett McCann, a senior lecturer in the sexual health program atthe University of Sydney, said: "It's a growing problem with bigimplications for the public health dollar."
An investigation by the Herald has uncovered thedestructive impact obsessive pornography use can have on couple'ssex lives, women's self-esteem, and sense of trust.
At the same time, others are warning against a moral panic,citing research that shows pornography consumers overwhelminglyreport positive benefits. Alan McKee, of the Queensland Universityof Technology, who with colleagues conducted a survey of more than1000 self-selected pornography users, said 58.8 per cent said ithad a positive effect on their attitudes to sex and only 6.8 percent said it was negative.
"Australians who use pornography say it not only gives thempleasure but broadens their minds, and provides a valuable sexeducation," he said.
And while some women have suffered from their partner's internetporn obsession, women in general are considered the new consumergrowth market, according to Fiona Patten, chief executive of theEros Association, the adult retail industry's peak body.
Despite the internet having transformed the way pornography isconsumed, the number of sex shops has also burgeoned, Ms Pattensaid.
There were 500 shops in 2003 and there are 900 today. BesidesDVDs, they now carried a much bigger range of sex toys, eroticclothing and other paraphernalia, she said.
Big stores covering 1000 square metres had opened in some statesover the past five years. The SexyLand chain in Victoria, forexample, had taken advantage of changes in zoning laws to establishhuge stores in commercial areas. "They are the Bunnings andOfficeworks of the sex industry," Ms Patten said.
The X-rated video mail-order business had halved in size sinceits heydays in the 1990s because of the internet and the expansionof retail outlets. But Australia's lack of a fast broadbandnetwork, which made it difficult to download sexually explicitfeature films, had helped maintain the popularity of DVDs. "We'restill selling at least 10 million DVDs a year, mainly throughretail outlets and by ordering through the internet," Ms Pattensaid.
The "pornification" of society, as described by US author PamelaPaul, has sparked a call for an investigation.
The former head of the Office of the Status of Women, HelenL'Orange, wants a royal commission or other form of nationalinquiry into the effects of the internet on society andrelationships, with a focus on pornography.
"We've seen momentous changes in the way more people meet overthe internet and the huge amount of pornography being viewed, andthese changes merit investigation," she said. "It's worth takingstock and finding out what impact it is having onrelationships."
She said the Whitlam government had established the RoyalCommission into Human Relationships in 1974 at another time ofsocial change to report on many aspects of male/femalerelationships as far as they were relevant to the federalgovernment. The aim of the proposed inquiry would not be increasedcensorship but to inform, educate and raise awareness, shesaid.
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