Recently I wrote about a research study that suggested that we look at sexting in a new framework. Not as a legal issue but as part of the new “normal” teen emancipation. Not only did this study provide data to support this theory, it also brought forth some suggestions for reducing sexting in teens based […]
Sexting is in the news nearly every day. We hear about adults getting arrested for sexting minors or minors getting in trouble for sexting each other. I have even seen news articles where parents turn their own children into the authorities when they find out they have been engaging in sexting. Our world (or at […]
Where there is a will there is a way. This is something often heard in our office. When we are dealing with trying to limit a child’s access to sexual content in the digital world or trying to create barriers for accountability for someone with a sexual addiction, we must always remember this! This is […]
I was first introduced to the work of Marc Prensky on Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives by Rob Weiss. As we continue to advance in the digital age, this work continues to be relevant. In particular, to The New Age of Sex Education, it is very relevant to how parents relate to their more tech […]
Yesterday, a British think tank, IPPR (ippr.org), released preliminary details of a study they conducted involving teenagers’ outlooks on pornography. The full report will not be released until next week. At that time, I will have a more in depth analysis. The findings of this study show that online pornography does have an impact on […]
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 […]
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 […]
