Snapchat and apps like it such as Bolt, Taptalk, and Mirage, are often dubbed sexting apps. I have seen Snapchat, particularly, labeled as the sexting app. Sexting cases using these and other apps tend to make a big splash in the news. However, given the recently emerging scientific data about the lack of prevalence of […]
Sex addiction now seems to be tossed around rather lightly. Behaviors, such as BDSM fetishes are often labeled incorrectly.
There has been a sizeable amount of press, particularly coming out of the United Kingdom, on the legal aspects of sexting and what could or would happen to adolescents if they are caught sexting, either sending images or receiving images. Around July 22, 2014, BBC news was full of articles relating to a case of […]
This spring, the app, Yik Yak began to receive a large amount of attention in the news, none of it positive. School officials from Chicago to Georgia have worked to try to ban the app due to its use as a means to cyberbully students. So what is Yik Yak? It is a social media […]
There is a never ending barrage of new apps entering the digital universe every day. It would be a full time job to keep up to date on all of the new offerings. This blog is slowly progressing through those apps that can be used for sexual purposes as well as their official or intended […]
As a sex addiction therapist, I tend to see the negative side of internet pornography. The people that come to me have problems with cyberpornography. The research tells us that about 10% of all users of online pornography end up having a problem (or addiction). What about the other 90%? Some people manage to be […]
A study recently published in the Journal of Children and Media (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1748298.2014.923009) looked at sexting social norms as well as the relational context of sexting. Its findings shed light on the prevalence of teen sexting as well as the differences between genders. If you were to gather data simply from the general media reporting on […]
Last month there were several major news stories in New Jersey regarding teen sexting. In two affluent communities in central New Jersey the school administration had to determine how to handle the possession of nude images of classmates by both high school and middle school students (http://www.nj.com/somerset/index.ssf/2014/05/bernards_kids_could_face_child_pornography_charges_for_nude_pics_of_classmates_on_phones.html). In New Jersey (and most other states) the […]
The decision as to whether or not a parent will monitor or filter their child’s internet use is a very personal one. Many parents do not. They may think their child is not doing anything that warrants monitoring. They may think their child is too young to necessitate even thinking about the issue. Additionally, some […]
In the past few weeks in the Philadelphia area, where I have my primary therapy practice, there have been a number of arrests related to the hook up application (“app”), Grindr. On May 1, 2014 a young man was found murdered after meeting someone with whom he connected on the Grindr app. The person he […]
