60% of Australians say they don’t look at porn … really?

From the Research Institute of Gullible Fools:

MOST Australians say they don't look at online porn and support the idea of an internet filter^[1], a survey has found.

Just one in five respondents admitted to looking at legal but sexually explicit material on the internet – less than the number of people who said they had stumbled across it by accident.

Sixty per cent – including almost half of those aged 18 to 29 – said they had never seen it, in the survey conducted for ABC program Hungry Beast.

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Only 6 per cent of people said they had deliberately looked at material online they thought would be refused classification under the Federal Government's internet filter.

A further 24 per cent said they had seen such material accidentally.

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However the numbers may be skewed by modesty, with at least four major porn websites among the Top 100 visited by Australians as ranked by web traffic monitor Alexa.

All four adult sites were more popular than the official sites of Qantas, the Yellow Pages and the Australian Open, according to the list.

“may be skewed by modesty” … Jeez, ya think!?

Polls may waver in their authenticity and accuracy, but there comes a point where anyone who believes in results as transparently bogus as 60% of a country’s population never looking at porn must be deemed to be either incredibly naive, or exceedingly dumb.

(via Fark)

^[1] Actually, this “Internet filter” bit is a bit misleading. Responders were asked whether they would support a filter that would block content such as bestiality, child porn, rape imagery, and so on, not just any regular ol’ porn. Of course, I’m still against any type of Internet content filtering at all – if you don’t wanna see a website, then don’t go there (same argument applies to gay marriage, oddly enough), or buy a net nanny program for your personal use.