Relation of Knowledge and Attitude to Access Porn Sites Among Adolescences who Visited “Internet Shops” (Warnet-Warnet) in Makasssar

Abstract

Introduction, Some of researchers explained that, by increasing the interest of adolescences about sexs, urging them to look for informations. That informations can be found freely from peer group, books, movies, videos, and opening internet sites. The negative effect of media, especially for pornography was the serious problem must be solved because indirectly it can influence the adolescences’s health reproduction. Generally, they exposured pornography from internet by visiting internet shop (Warnet).
Purpose, To determine the relation of knowledge and attitude of using internet to access porn sites among adolescences who visited internet shop in Makassar by using cross sectional study. Adolescences who visited internet shop in Makassar were population of this study, 413 of them recruited as sample by using accidental sampling method. This study used 14 days to finish.
Result, there is no relation of knowledge to attitude of using internet (p=0,081), there is relation of knowledge of using internet to access porn sites (p=0,000) and attitude of using internet to access porn sites among adolescences who visited internet shop.
Propose, Sex education should be giving to adolescences, parents should create communication to their child, the government should make the rules about blockade porn sites accessed by adolescences to the internet shop own.


Key world : knowledge. attitude, access porn sites, adolescence