Barely a week after the government vowed to crack down on adult Internet sites, a Malaysian government official suggested parents too embarrassed to teach their children about sex may leave those children prone to learning about online porn.
"Certain parents did not want to discuss sex education with children due to their lack of understanding on the matter and the subject's association with sexual relations," Dr. Datuk Mashitah Ibrahim, parliamentary secretary in the Prime Minister's Department, told the Malaysian newspaper Mingguan Malaysia this week.
She told the paper that parents could be encouraged to teach basic sex ed to their children with an emphasis on the form of learning, which wouldn't make any materials used in such teaching seem obscene.
But Mashitah also told the paper some parents don't know how to use the Internet themselves, allowing children to use that ignorance to visit porn sites without their parents really understanding what's going on.
Malaysia's parliament is considering stricter regulations against adult material in the country, and the country's Communications and Multimedia Commissions have accused unspecified internationally based Web hosts of using "various tactics" to lure "sex addicts."
