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Dumlao National High School

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School Year 2019-2020

CHAPTER I

The Research Problem

Rationale

Pornography is the portrayal of erotic behavior designed to cause sexual excitement.

It is words, acts, or representations that are calculated to stimulate sexual feelings independent of

the presence of another loved and chosen human being. It is divorced from reality in its sole

purpose to stimulate an erotic response. It is preoccupied with and concentrates on sex organs for

the purpose of sexual stimulation. It emphasizes the sexual organs and focuses on them in

varying ways calculated to entice sexual desire (City of Youngtown, V. DeLoreto, USA. 1969).

It is likely that porn appeared in the early days of human history. Vase imagery from

ancient Greece and the painted pornographic scenes at the ancient resort Pompeii are two

frequently cited examples, though there are many more. The very concepts of “obscenity” and

“pornography” have ancient Latin and Greek etymological roots (W. Kendrick, 1987).

Pornography is a Greek word, which originally meant writing about prostitutes. Researchers

have discovered rock paintings demonstrating sexual intercourse between ancient people

together with petroglyphs showing hunting people. It is not clear whether it was porn or not, but

those drawings could not be considered erotic as they were done in a primitive and indecent

manner. A little has changed since then; however, people still cannot differentiate between

pornography and erotica to tell what is allowed for demonstration in public and what is not.
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Pornography has significant effects during all stages of family life. A cross-sectional survey

revealed that 87 percent of Australians aged 15 to 29 years had ever viewed pornography.

According to a large survey of American college students, 51 percent of males and 32

percent of females admitted to viewing pornography for the first time before they were 13 years

old. Adolescents who view pornography, their attitudes toward their own and others’ sexuality

change, and their sexual expectations and behavior are shaped accordingly. Pornography in the

Philippines is defined by Philippine law in the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines and

Republic Act No. 7610.

According to this Philippine legislation, pornography are illegal doctrines,

publications, shows, and other similar material or portrayals that advocate human immorality,

obscenity, and indecency. Philippine legislations penalize participation in these unlawful

activities, which extend punishment to those that harbor abuse, exploitation, prostitution, and

discrimination of children. A recent study by the Commission on Population (Popcom) "Post-

Millennial Filipinos: Renewed Hope Versus Risk's,"has once again shown the negative effects of

pornography on the youth. The study gathered data on how pornography drives the youth toward

early sexual activity ("Cyberporn, social media drive youth to early sex,"News, 3/24/17).
 Pornography can also be deemed a health crisis in our country, as the Popcom study

has linked its use to the rising sexual activity among the youth. Surely our lawmakers can draw

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laws and resolutions to combat pornography's spread in our culture, given the overwhelming

evidence about its danger. In this study, the researcher wants to determine the Effects of

Pornography to Unthetical Behaviour of Junior High School Students in Gaudencio B. Dumlao

National . It will aim to recommend avenus on how students prevent watching and to limit

themselves on Pornography.

Statement of the problem

The study will attempt to determine the Effect of Pornography to the Unethical behavior

of Junior High School Student in Gaudencio B. Dumlao National High School.

Specifically, it will answer the following sub-question;

1. What are the student-related factor in terms of:

A. Gender

B. Age

C. Grade-Lever
2. What are the effects of watching pornography to unethical behavior of junior high school

student of Don Gaudencio B. Dumlao National High School

3. What are the teachers-related factors in terms of:

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A. Personal traits

B. Skill-factor

4. How many junior high school students of Don Gaudencio B. Dumlao National High School be

describes in terms of following attributes:

A. Attitude

B. Behavior

Significance of the study

This study examine the impact of pornography within the family when an individual

member is a consumer of pornography. There is a research exploring the attitudes toward

pornography held by family members when an individual is engaged in using pornographic

material. It will aim to look for the unhealthy effect of Pornography to Unethical Behavior of

Junior High School Student and in their academic performance.

Students. They will be more aware about the effects of watching pornography in their attitudes,

their social interactions to the other people, and especially in their studies.

Faculty. They will give sufficient attention to high school students who watch pornography.

They could approach each high school students properly

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Parents. For they will be more aware on their children by using phone or any devices that may

have any videos to enhance their behavior and to balance their time and know their limitation.

Future researcher. They can use our study for their future research. Future researcher especially

those who will conducts study on the same or similar framework will gain insights from the

substance of this investigation.

Scope and Delimitations

This study will focus on the effects of watching pornography to the selected Junior

High School Students in Gaudencio B. Dumlao National High School in School Year 2019-2020

Research objectives describe concisely what the research it trying to achieve. They summarize

the accomplishments a researcher wishes to achieve through the project and provides direction to

the study.
 The researcher's made a survey-questionnaire to the Junior High School Students as a

respondent.

Definition of Terms

1. Pornography - printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of

sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feeling.

2. Unethical - not morally correct

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3. Behavior - the way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others.

4. Sex - either the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other

living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.

5. Junior High School Students - a secondary school is an organization that provides secondary

education.

6. Peer - group of people of approximately the same age, status, and interest major aspect that

affects the student behavior and performance.

 References

(W. Kendrick, 1987)

(Cyberporn, 2017)

(DeLoreto, 1969)

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CHAPTER II

Review of Related Literature

Related Literature
According to Heilbron and Prinstein, peer influence is one of the toughest seers of the

engagement of adolescents to a specific behavior that results in an adoption of a specific attitude

which is often highly observable within the common environment among them. Kandel (as

cited by Heilbron & Prinstein) asserted that there are two views of “homophile” that may explain

the relationship between adolescents and their peer attitude. First, he issued that adolescents tend

to subordinate themselves with others who are similar to them or what is known as “selection

process” (as cited in Heilbron & Prinstein). Second, the engagement of the peers in specific

behaviors allows the increase likelihood of similar attitudes among themselves (socialization
process), as what Heilbron and Prinstein stressed. The effects of peer influence may vary

depending on a specific environment. However, it has been noted that most studies about the

concept frequently involve social problems such as "aggressive, illegal, and deviant behaviors"

existing within peer dyads or groups (Heilbron & Prinstein, 2008).

Patriarchy is considered as a social structure that is particularly an important point

with reference to the value placed on women’s lives, as they only become respectable and

acceptable when they have been ‘tamed’ by a man and the family (Takhar 2005). According to

Takhar, in a real family setting where this old worldwide norm called patriarchy is followed, the

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Father (or even the males) of the family is recognized as the one who dominates the decisions

needed to be done within the family and the way the family lives. The mother in this type of

family governance serves to be the first one to support and obey the orders of the father and has

no right to oppose unless asked for opinions, which is a rare situation. In most cases of

Patriarchy, women in the family are degraded as their level of significance is settled lower to any

male in the family (Takhar).

Culture is defined as everything which is composed of the knowledge, behavior, and

attitude a person acquires from a group of people or society (Paludi, 1997). Culture is relative

and does not exist only in one form. It is not innate in one’s self, rather it is accumulated from

the existing environment that one interacts with (Paludi). On the other hand, gender provides
specific tasks on males and females on determining their roles and functions in the society. Such

tasks that gender provides to both sexes vary from one culture to another. At the very start of

human life – from birth, and even until death, gender has brought a major contribution in

molding human feelings, thoughts, and actions (Macionis, 2002). Macionis even emphasized that

even at the earliest age of three, a person begins to apply certain gender standards to himself.

However, such gender standards are still unstable and flexible because as the person grows old,

s/he enters into specific environments or societies that contain specific types of culture (or well-

accepted norms) that somehow contribute to the alteration or even the further development of it.

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According to Joan Acker (as cited in “Gender Roles in Society”, n.d.), gender here is

where “the abstract worker” is the man and his entire character- including his body that

represents strength, sexuality, diminutive contribution onto reproduction and his attitude on

keeping his own emotions under control, which “pervades work and organizational processes”.

While the woman meets exclusion and is under ruling because of her body and assigned roles

such as carrying a child during pregnancy, taking care of a growing child, breastfeeding her

baby, undergoing menstruation, and being the one who is said to be carefree on pouring out

emotions. True enough, these inequalities of treatment and perception to gender is evident in our

society. Females are treated lowly for their gender roles which are seen simple compared to

males’. Acker’s definition exhibits what appears to man and woman in reality. In relation to our
study that focuses on a type of college men who are enfolded to an all-men environment, this

definition of gender may also be seen as true by males nowadays.

According to Myers, girls and boys, during playtime, often involve with group

activities. However, there are common differences present, such as the fact that boys do games

which involve striving for independence and competition towards others (e.g. toy guns and

swords) while girls, on the other hand, play with less aggression and more intimate relationships

with other girls (e.g. dolls and toy houses) as what Myers stressed. The children unknowingly

adapt these specific norms according to how they are being brought up by their own parents. In

short, at this stage, the parents’ involvement in the grasping of the children on the environment’s

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culture/norms which further contributes to the formation of the child’s attitude is highly

observable and relevant. Here comes adolescence. And, the child who has been imprisoned over

his parents’ arms at home now fully enters into a new society the school. At this very crucial

stage, Myers (2002) observed that the child or “teenager” cares “less about what his parents think

than what his peers think”. Here, the transmission of culture becomes less from the parent to

child and the link of influence the parent has to her own child becomes loose (Myers).

Related Studies

Past research on pornography use has touched on the degree to which it might affect

important areas of interest such as divorce, happiness, worker productivity and sexual violence
(Bergen & Bogle, 2000; Doran & Price, 2014; Patterson & Price, 2012; Young & Case, 2004).

When such research is being conducted data must be from a reliable and generalizable source (or

sources). Results and findings of any such effects must be considered in light of the age, gender,

and sexual identity of individuals as well – factors which are not considered in this paper

(Sevcikova & Daneback, 2014; Stoops, 2015; Traeen & Daneback, 2013; Tripodi et al. 2015). In

such research opportunities pornography use by state may play a role in the analysis. Given the

results of this paper the data source of such a variable must be heavily considered in such a

regression and result must be interpreted in context of the data source.

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The big data revolution is beginning to dramatically open up the types of data sources

that can be used to measure and study behaviors, such as pornography use. The subscription data

used by Edelman (2009) represents the type of large datasets that will increasingly become

available to scholars in their research. An important first step in using this type of proprietary

data will be assessing the degree to which the data from a single provider is representative of the

general population of interest. In this section, we provide a framework assessing the

representativeness of a dataset by comparing it to the patterns observed from another data that is

known to be nationally representative or by comparing it to a combination of other data sources

that collectively are likely to represent the true underlying pattern of behavior.
 Past approaches to pornography use measurement have relied heavily on survey data

see (Buzzell, 2005). The electronic nature of online pornography, however, increasingly makes

possible a number of alternative methods for obtaining reliable proxies of pornography use,

including those gathered from subscription or online search data. The ability to use an objective

measure based on subscription or search data is advantageous since survey-based data generally

suffers from a social desirability bias: respondents may underreport activities that violate social

norms (Fisher, 1993). In addition, subscription data does not depend on an individual’s opinion

about what constitutes pornography; a natural limitation of subjective survey questions about

pornography use.

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Edelman (2009) was a pioneer in accessing the subscription data of a single provider of

paid pornographic content and this use of individual consumer data from private companies will

become a useful tool for gathering data on hard-to-measure behavior. Key for the future use of

this type of rich data will be identifying the degree to which the data from a single firm can

provide the same insights as a nationally representative sample.

Conclusion

Data provided by specific companies have the potential to provide important insights into public

issues. A major challenge is determining when the data of a single company, even a very large

one, can provide insights that are representative of the entire population. Assuming relative rates
of pornography across states did not have major changes from 2006-2013, the results of our

paper suggest that in some cases the information from a single company may make for a

misleading picture of the geographic patterns of a specific behavior. This can be particularly

important for pornography use since the vast majorities of individuals who access pornography

online only access free content rather than using a paid site (Doran, 2008).

The results of this paper draw on four different data sources about pornography use including

two that involve nationally representative data (Google Trends and NFSS). We find a significant

correlation between three of our data sources suggesting that they all reflect a similar underlying

pattern in pornography use across states. In contrast paid subscription data, the one source that

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has received a fair amount of media attention, actually correlates rather poorly with the other

sources. We also show that choices across data sources can affect the conclusions that studies

draw and suggest that future studies include sensitivity tests across data sources when examining

issues for which it is challenging to get an ideal measure of the specific behavior.

References

(Doran, 2008)

(Edelman, 2009)

(Fisher, 1993)

(Buzzell, 2005)
 (Traeen & Daneback, 2013)

(Sevcikova & Daneback, 2014)

(Tripodi et al. 2015)

(Bergen & Bogle, 2000)

(Patterson & Price, 2012)

(Young & Case, 2004)