“As if They Were Watching My Body”: pornography and the development of attitudes towards sex and sexual behaviour among Cambodian youth
This report presents research about young Cambodians’ exposure to pornography. The research was conducted between March and May 2006, in two rural districts and one urban commune, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research techniques. Previously, most research on pornography in south-east Asia has focused on children and women as the objects of pornographic representation. Thus, in Cambodia paedophilia and child pornography have been issues of extreme concern over recent years. However, this project (and two earlier projects that formed the basis of this project) represents a new approach because it moves from treating Cambodians as victims of other’s representations to an investigation of how representation of the sexual practices of others, as depicted in pornographic media, affect Cambodian children and their developing gender identities.
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