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.
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Content Blockers on my Children’s Devices?
Content blockers can impact the digital lives that kids lead. They live on their phones: Discord, Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, BeReal, and TikTok.
4 Ways to Block Pornography
There are many ways to block pornography; from narrow, focused methods to broad, restrictive methods. In this installment I’m going to give you an overview…
3 Reasons You Might Want to Block Porn
Do you have kids? Do you waste time indulging in idleness? Do you have a difficult to control compulsion? There’s lots of reasons to block pornography. Here’s a look at the top 3 reasons to block porn.
What Young Women’s Experiences with Sexting can tell us about Compliance, Coercion and Consent
The #MeToo movement has brought long overdue attention to the experiences of women who have been victims of sexual abuse and harassment. If you look behind the sensational headlines, the movement has sparked a much-needed conversation about consent. I have previously written about how we teach consent in our practice in a blog on the […]
Three Things to Teach your Child About Safe Sexting
If we choose to face reality, we know that teen sexting has become a normative part of adolescent culture. Of course, not all adolescents are doing it, but many are sexting. What we learned from the years of the “JUST SAY NO” campaign and more years of research is that preaching abstinence just doesn’t work. […]
Girls and Sexting
I am writing to you today from the annual conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). Each year, in addition to traditional talks, there are poster presentations. Today, Marion Desfachelles, a Ph.D. student at the University of Montreal, presented a poster on her research on girls and sexting. Background on Canadian Laws […]
Sex Ed by Porn: Free Webinar Friday
Join me this Friday for a free one hour webinar hosted by The Center for Healthy Sex at 12:00 pm (PT) to talk about the effects of cybersex and sexting on children. Click here to see the event details http://centerforhealthysex.com/sex-therapy-resources/upcoming-events/ You can also check out my book on the topic: The New Age of […]
Things 8 year olds say: I’ve seen videos of people kissing each other in their private parts
Sometimes I think I should rename this blog: “The parenting chronicles of my amazing friend in North Carolina.” I wrote about her experiences before when she shared with me that her eldest daughter was witness to a friend sexting on the school bus at the beginning of the school year. This week, she shared something […]
Sexting in 8th Grade – Part II
Sexting in 8th Grade – Part I Last week I shared the story of my long time friend’s experience with her child early in the school year: Her 5th grader watching her 8th grade friend sexting on the bus. As you might imagine, the story does not end there. After the initial conversation with her daughter, […]
