Sexuality on the Internet: Sexual Exploration, Cybersex, and Pornography

摘要: Sexuality as a developmental issue is present throughout the life cycle, but becomes especially salient during adolescence. Adolescents have to adjust their developing sexuality, in particular increased sexual drive and interest sex task of constructing selves. Sexual content topics feature prominently adolescents’ online lives from chat rooms, bulletin boards, conversations, including well-publicized instances sexting. In this chapter, we show how young people use Internet deal with sexuality. We begin by highlighting important aspects adolescent then examine characteristics environments that support activities more generally. The rest chapter will describe exploration, construction self access sexually explicit content. Because most research on exploration silent gay lesbian youth, consider potential role for minority youth separately. Even though age gender trends explorations parallel offline ones, behaviors are not identical they adapt characteristic environments.