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Though the "upskirt" videos were removed from the website, many links to videos of sex acts remain.

There is also an advertisement selling a CD of the images and videos taken from the blog.

For $12.90, buyers are promised all their "favourite old and updated lustful videos and never-published videos".

They are also told that the CD is available only in Singapore.

Many netizens and women were disgusted.

Student Koh Jia Tian, 22, said she would be "so angry" that she would "slap anyone who takes an upskirt video" of her.

"Such acts are perverted, and an invasion of my privacy. To prevent myself from becoming a victim, I will hold down my skirt at all times from now onwards and try not to stand at the sides of escalators and staircases," she said.

Masters student Cheryl Ong, 24, said: "I would be very angry with a person who tries to take an upskirt video of me. Such a person needs to be sent for counselling."

Ms Ong added that she would immediately report the culprit to the police, so that "the authorities can help him with his terrible tendencies".

Psychologist Vanessa von Auer, who is the clinic director at VA Psychology Centre, told The New Paper that upskirting is a form of voyeurism, which is defined as a repetitive behaviour pattern that consists of watching unsuspecting people in a sexual manner to achieve sexual excitement.

"Such behaviour is an invasion of privacy and can be considered a deviant form of sexuality," Ms von Auer noted.

She said one of her patients, a 17-year old girl, was the victim of an upskirt video. "She told me she thought she had made it easy for the culprit to upskirt her because she was wearing a short skirt," she added.

But "wearing a skirt does not extend an invitation to a peeping Tom, nor does it excuse such deviant behaviours," Ms von Auer pointed out.

The website is a disturbing indication that such voyeurism is now being shared and encouraged online.

Criminal lawyer Amerjeet Singh said he has handled upskirting cases in which people were caught with the footage in their phones or cameras.

"Now, I see more cases where the content is found in computers, because it's so easy for one to download and post the content onto websites such as blogs these days," he added.