Yeah... I felt they sounded silly when I read it. But Singapore is basically still in Victorian times. It's like the authorities ban this and that making themselves look like they haven't had sex themselves.
I really don't know how effective all these bans are. Just a couple of months back, I remember reading a survey done on teenagers and young adults. A good proportion have lost their virginity by the time they 21 and I believe teenage abortions are on the rise here. The one that caught my attention was this young girl from a so-called top all-girls sec school who had sex b4. According to the reporter, she was bespectacled and carried some books -- not the type you'd think would sleep around with boys. Her remarks suggested "What's the big deal??!"
The bottomline is, the more you prevent it forcefully, the more curious the mind gets and the more they wanna explore. Can't believe certain TV programs that are banned/censored or placed late at night just because of some little adult language content that does not even border on the 'F' word that you commonly get in Hollywood PG movies these days.
What we seriously lack is education with knowledge. Over here, I find authorities like to punish, fine and impose pain on people in the blind hope that they will not repeat whatever is not allowed in the local society. That's what I call education without reason or knowledge. For eg, how does punishing the students who owned the porn VCDs make them realize what they did was wrong? Why is it wrong anyway? Would it not motivate them to be more discreet the next time they wish to watch it again? You think these kids undergoing puberty will stop just because some dorky authority told them it's WRONG? DUH!!
This is just a simple matter of educating the students involved. Why get the police and punish the students? What wrong have they done? It's not watching porn that is wrong. If so, then most adults have done wrong!! It's the implication of watching it at a young age. This has to be explained to the students. IMO, they did no wrong. They just need to be PROPERLY educated. Which unfortunately, doesn't usually happen here where such issues are concerned.