Meanwhile, a Universiti Malaya study conducted a decade ago said that one in three female secondary school students admitted they were sexually active. Pointing towards the study, child psychology researcher Datuk Dr Chiam Heng Keng, while addressing a seminar on 'Training our Children on Personal Safety' at the Sarawak Women's Bureau recently said that if that was a decade ago, then it can only be imagined what it would be like today. The study was conducted on the habits of girls aged 12 to 18. The study found that some had sex for pleasure, but most prostituted themselves for the money to buy expensive goods, such as handphones and branded clothes. Surprisingly these students did not go to parks or other public places to have sex. They did it at home, according to the study. Dr Chiam was professor of Social Psychology at the university when the study was conducted. She is now a Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) commissioner.
