1 in 10 kids having sex chats online

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• "28% admitted that they have accessed adult websites" you cant be anymore wrong change the 28% to 99%. what 18 years old hasn't accessed an "adult website". Posted by walker, logitech
• Sorry, but i think with the Internet people need to learn on their own. My parents NEVER monitored what i did on the internet. They asked what i got up to and took an interest, but never really got that involved. Obviously i didn't say "Oh im just looking at adult sites", but that's normal for anyone. They just brought my up right and taught me to use my common sense.
  
  I think that, like anything, if parents are too over-protective about what their kids do on the internet, the kids will rebel and it will make the situation worse.
  
  PS: You can't compare using the internet to crossing the road, it's a completely different thing altogether.
  
  18, Lincs Posted by AF, UK
• PS: I wonder if you asked the same children if they'd had sexual conversations/encounters in real life, what the answer would be. Probably just as much, if not more! What are you going to do then? Stop them talking to each other? This is just a normal part of growing up, the same as you would do face-to-face.
  
  18, Lincs Posted by AF, UK
• I'd give them a darned good thrashing..... Posted by bogoff, englunda
• AF I agree totally with you! Posted by Ian, UK
• I think the Online Safety Code ought to be learnt and taught by parents, the Internet is a far dangerous place than it was a decade or so ago. Although it may seem impossible, the Internet should be governed and policed, which could be initiated via the W3C. Posted by Imran, UK
• This data is totally useless and non-meaningful without showing the results for each age group.
  I would guess most of the 18 year old's have viewed adult sites, and they are not kids anyway and can view sites/buy adult material legally, so that portion of it is irrelevant.
  
  And there is nothing illegal about having a conversation about sex, but again 10% is not very high, especially as if we assume its an even proportion in each age group, 12.5% were 18, and 37.5% are over 16, then its actually a very low figure.
  
  You cannot really call 16 year olds and above kids, if its legal to have sex, then they are not kids...
  
  Again its useless survey..
  
  Show me the details and then maybe it will mean something.. Posted by chris, UK
• So if we are to take an interest into the other sex via the internet, the big ole people in the government think we're all bad ? Oh deary me. I mean come on...as long as a person has an ounce of common sense something like internet chat is completely harmless, like say...mental masterbation ? Of course I understand the implications of rapists, pedos etc but theres a simple way to ignore them...GET A FIREWALL AND DON'T TELL THEM WHERE YOU LIVE!
  Seriously though, I'd be a hell of a lot more worried if this was an article saying "1 in 10 British kids do not like sex"! Posted by Dale, UK
• I agree with Dale, that would be horrid!
  
  If anything this is good news, the internet can let us explore sex and sexuality safely. Sex ed at schools is a joke or non existent, of course we'll just seek it out ourselves. Posted by Tim, UK
• The same data was paraded in another article as evidence parents had nothing to worry about lol
  
  We as a company offered our local community free child safer surfing software and to encrypt all wireless networks to wpa2 encryption for free.
  even though the local community association and free paper advertised it
  not one person took up the offer .
  
  Apathy rules the UK. Posted by huxley, england
• How does that compare with kids discussing sex (sorry, "having sex chats") offline? Maybe we should ban real life... Posted by Mike K, England
• The first thing a kid looks for is sex - for gods sake relax about it Posted by Shaun Diamonds, uk
• i don't know about you but i just think parents should watch what their little kids do when they go online..just to make sure that they aren't on any bad sites..they can go online but just becareful because sometimes a sign might pop up and say something that makes your kid get curious so what they do is click on it but next thing you know they're on a porn site which is not good...soo parents just be cautious and aware of it..they can go on game sites..that could be good. or maybe you can limit them on the computer or something...you don't want your kids to be a computer addict at an early age...that's not good because then they won't get enought excercise they need... Posted by kat, GUAM
• the first thing a kid looks for is not sex unless YOU told them about it. Posted by kat, gu
• and it depends what age are they..and who they hang around with..becxause there are so called friends who like to talk about sex all the time because they think it's cool or something but it's not. Posted by me, gu
• to the person before me. the only teens that dont talk about sex are either inhuman or social rejects. Posted by undecided, UK
• from 13/14 onwards i seem to rember being quite interested in sex, and going on yahoo chat and having kinky conversations was how my generation grew up.
  
  It seems from the comments I am not the only one fed up of this ridiculous scare mongering. Posted by Richard, UK
• I'm a teen myself, and I'm not going to lie.
  I have an interest in sex.
  I do look at adult websites, and its not that big of a deal.
  I mean, its just sex.
  Nothing else Posted by Slee, U.S.
• I was going to just dismiss this article as being flawed and therefore somewhat meaningless for reasons already noted, but I felt I had to reply to Imran's comment. My god, you are so wrong.
  
  The internet is a place for free discussion and information, and NO government should be allowed to censor that. Obviously where serious crimes such as child rape are committed local law enforcement should get involved, but there are /already/ bodies in place to do this, we do not need more to spy on us and influence the flow of free information. The reason that the internet was a safer place a decade ago was that the internet was a mere 3 years old and very, very few had access to it. Obviously with a more accurate representation of the world demographic you are going to get more desirables, this is just an unfortunate fact. Live with it. Posted by Dan, UK
• well i had sex befor its nothing interesting. Posted by jacob, tulsa ok
• i think who ever has a boy friend should have sex!
  by cassandra Posted by cassandra, pnnsylvaina
• he baby Posted by artther, unied states
• sex is awesome it feels great some girls ask why boys love to do it so mch its bcauseit makes our dick feel so good Posted by kevin mcallister, usa
• hi Posted by ug, nigeria
• how old are you jacob Posted by tete, U.S
• hi oh are youll
  Posted by Jesse , Dallas
• Very stupid. Posted by Jamie, England, UK
• im 9 years old i want to have sex Posted by jacob, united states