The purpose of this study is to understand the current status of high school students´ exposure to pornographic materials as well as to provide basic data to develop sex education programs. This study was conducted through a self-administered questionnaire survey of 774 students of six high schools in Seoul, three boys´ and three girls´ respectively, from August 22 to August 25, 2000. This study shows that high school students´ exposure to pornographic materials such as CD-ROMs, internet, video tapes and adult movies has become very serious. The results of this study are as follows.
1. Among the students surveyed, 23.5% of them currently has opposite-sex friends, while 42.2% used to have and 34.2% has never had opposite-sex friends.
2. 55.3% of the students pick up their sexual knowledge from their friends, followed by mass media (47.5%), school (21.1%), adult magazines (17.1%), internet (14.1%), pornography visual materials (11.5%). sexual books (3.6%) and pornography printed materials (2.4%).
3. Regarding the frequency of sexual education taken in school, 54.2% of the students answered ´often´, while 37.6% answered ´almost none´, ´several times´ (4.4%), ´never´ (2.9%) and ´frequently´ (0.9%), respectively.
Regarding sexual education at home, 42.2% answered ´almost none´, followed by ´never´ (36.3%). ´often´ (16.3%), ´several times´ (3.3%) and ´frequently´ (1.8%), respectively.
4. 68.2% of the students have been exposed to adult movies, followed by pornography videos (60.1%), internet chatting (50.2%) and pornography computer diskettes (38.0%).
5. The degree of exposure to pornographic materials of boy students is much higher than that of girl students.
6. It appears that there is an interrelation between the kind of schools and the degree of the students´ exposure to pornographic materials.
7. The higher the students´ grade is, the more they have been exposed to pornographic materials.
8. It shows that there is an interrelation between the students´ academic performance and the degree of their exposure to pornographic materials.
9. There is also an interrelation between the amount of students´ pocket money and the degree of their exposure to pornographic materials.
10. There is an interrelation between the degree of their adaptation to school life and the degree of their exposure to pornographic materials.
11. It appears that there is an interrelation between their parents´ relations with them and the degree of the students´ exposure to pornographic materials.
12. There is a significant difference in the degree of their exposure to pornographic materials in accordance with their residential area.
13. There is also a significant difference in the degree of their exposure to pornographic materials in accordance with the average income of their families.
14. There is also a significant difference in the degree of their exposure to pornographic materials in accordance with the mean sexual education at home.
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