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By Malcolm Beith

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Perhaps Singapore isn't as prudish as its reputation suggests. PalmStories, a California-based service that provides porn stories and pictures for palmtop owners to download, says the little city-state of 4.1 million people makes up a third of its foreign market. PalmStories uses Internet channels that allow users to put porn in their palms without fear of being traced. And stereotypes about the residents of Singapore--where even Cosmopolitan magazine is banned--are now being buried under the mattress. As one Hong Kong Internet analyst says: "Maybe Singaporeans are human after all."

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