New Efforts to Protect Teens on Snapchat
Last week Snapchat released new features targeting users 13-17 on the platform. Protections for teens on Snapchat have been slow to arrive and lacking features.
What’s Being Done to Protect Teens on Instagram and Messenger?
Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, will be using automation and giving parents more visibility into activities to protect teens on their platforms.
Is BDSM Healthy or a Deviant Fetish?
A popular assumption about people who engage in BDSM is that there must be some kind of psychological pathology underlying their kink. So, is BDSM healthy?
Expanded: How To Recognize Violence versus BDSM
Recognizing domestic violence versus BDSM in relationships can be difficult, but is possible when you understand the key differences.
Not Sure Which it is? Healthy BDSM Relationships versus Violence?
The following criteria can help identify a healthy BDSM relationships versus violence. These criteria are taken directly from psychiatry reports.
What is Accidentally Brave all about?
During this year’s IITAP symposium, we watched the first-ever showing of Maddie Corman’s movie adaptation of her one-woman play “Accidentally Brave.”
Sex Doll Owners and Contact Offenses: Correlation?
Previous research about sex doll owners has been broad. This looks at: Is there any association between owning sex dolls and risk of contact sexual offending?
How to do Primary Prevention and More
My reading this morning was about: moving the US toward primary prevention of child sexual abuse; child predators on TikTok and my first YouTube troll comments.
Dick Pic Culture: How do Teenage Girls Navigate it?
As I sit to write this, I’m experiencing something I never anticipated in my professional life. I just wrote the phrase “Dick Pic Culture” in the headline.
How to Protect Your Child from Sextortion
The FBI’s statement, released yesterday, about sexual extortion, or sextortion of children is informative, but too little, too late.
