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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Blocking Porn: Browsers – How to Decide?
Welcome to the next installment of our series Blocking Porn: Browsers. This is just a small piece of advice for content blocking…
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.
Pornography Use and Erectile Dysfunction
What is the science behind pornography induced erectile dysfunction? Learn more from this new study in the JMIR Health and Surveillance Journal.
Pornography and BDSM: What Americans are Really Doing
There are many articles relating to the pornography epidemic but there are few studies about those assertions and even fewer about pornography and BDSM.
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 […]
