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Chief of National Child Protection Authority (NCPA), Anoma Dissanayake, yesterday said that Sri Lanka should be ashamed to top the list of countries searching ‘sex’ on Google.
"I’m really embarrassed," Ms. Dissanayake said, adding that the entire country should be concerned about the situation. She said urgent remedial measures were required to address the issue.
The NCPA chief pointed out that Sri Lanka had beaten India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
Following a recent survey, Google Trends revealed that Sri Lankans topped the list to have searched for the word ‘sex’.On a city based ranking, Indian cities topped the list for the word ‘sex’ as a query share.
Sri Lanka was followed by India, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Pakistan Nepal, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Somalia and Cambodia.
Such analysis is carried out be Google Trends, which is a public web facility of Google Inc, based on Google Search that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.
Ms. Dissanayake alleged that the online pornography was one of major contributory factors for abuse of children and women. With the rapid expansion of IT facilities the vast majority of Sri Lankans could now access the internet, she said, adding that many obviously were attracted to pornography.
Ms Dissanayake said that an upsurge of violence against children and women had prompted calls for stringent punishment for those found guilty.
