Kuala Lumpur: Porn surfing may be admonished in some states, but Malaysia seems to have taken a rather liberal stand on the issue, despite the Islamic state of Kelantan topping the list of users who visit local pornographic websites.
Internet surfers from Kelantan have searched for entries like "bogel" (nudity), "gambar bogel" (nude pictures), "seks Melayu" (sex involving Malays) and "cerita seks" (sex stories), reports Malaysia’s The Star Daily's Sunday Paper said.
However, this doesn’t seem to have perturbed Malaysian psychologists who say the phenomenon is “normal.”
University Malaya psychologist Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar says the trend is not alarming, especially in a state like Kelantan that practised conservative policies in sensitive matters like sexuality.
"If a teenager was the one who searched for it, it is normal because of puberty and he has to learn about sexuality to understand the changes they experience. If teenagers ask their parents or peers, how much information can they get? In Kelantan, parents are not open to talking about sexuality with their children," she was quoted as saying.
Jaafar - adding that some parents tend to regard the subject as a taboo - also said some research studies found that searching for sex materials online could lead to addiction.
However, she also advised caution in reading into statistics as the data in Google Trends did not give a full picture by not showing information such as the age group of the internet users.
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