A survey conducted in 10 city colleges to assess the extent of porn addiction among students presents some alarming findings and figures. According to the survey, a total of 21,000 students start watching rape porn every year in Chennai. Forty-four percent of boys watch videos of rape and gang rape online.

Youngsters in the age group of 16-21 make as many as 2.7 lakh visits to such sites every day. “Research shows that rape porn fuels human trafficking. Eighty four percent of the students said consumption of porn escalates, leading to more violent porn,” said Abishek Clifford, CEO of Rescue, an NGO that carried out the study.

To reduce the number of students watching rape porn, Rescue says NGOs have demanded the government regulate porn websites and include cyber ethics in higher secondary syllabus and use technology to regulate access to such sites.