Abstract

The progress of the digital world, particularly the Internet, is contributing to increasingly significant changes in the way adolescents encounter and consume sexually explicit material. The internet has made pornography readily available, accessible, affordable, and anonymous. The study investigated the influence of internet pornography and gender on the sexual behaviour of Federal Unity School students. Quantitativ data was collected with the use of two instruments, namely the Pornography Susceptibility Assessment Scale and the Sexual Behaviour Assessment Scale. The study found a positively statistically significant relationship between the level of susceptibility to internet pornography and students’ sexual behaviour. The study also found that there was no statistically significant gender difference in students’ sexual behaviour (t = -.572, p =.530).