Adolescents’ Exposure to Sexually Explicit Material on the Internet

By Jochen Peter, Patti M. Valkenburg. Communication Research, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Balancing opportunities and risks in teenagers’ use of the internet: the role of online skills and internet self-efficacy (2010, background): “…gender divide that existed for computers (Durndell and Haag, 2002; McIlroy et al., 2001) does not appear to carry over to the internet, although boys, irrespective of access or skills, tend to encounter more risks, especially pornography (Valkenburg and Peter, 2006; Valkenburg and Soeters, 2001).”
Adolescents’ Exposure to a Sexualized Media Environment and Their Notions of Women as Sex Objects (2007, background): “On the internet, explicit depictions of different sexual activities (e.g., oral, vaginal, and anal sex) and sexual preferences (e.g., sadomasochistic sex, fetishes) are not only easily accessible to adolescents (Cooper, 1998), they also use it (Lo & Wei, 2005; Peter & Valkenburg, 2006).”
Harm and Offence in Media Content: A Review of the Evidence (2006, background): “Most importantly, online risks to children are greater than are television-related risks (regarding the extremes of violent or pornographic content, privacy or contact risks from strangers, etc), giving rise in turn to greater anxieties among parents (Wolak, Mitchell, and Finkelhor, 2007; Peter and ”
Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Online Material and Recreational Attitudes Toward Sex. (2006, background): “Further information about the operationalization of this measure and elaborate descriptive statistics can be found in Peter and Valkenburg (2006).”
Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health (2011, background): “For example, a survey of adolescents (13–18 years) recruited from an online convenience panel found that those who reported exposure to sexually explicit material online were more likely to endorse statements that describe women as sex objects(84) and sex as recreational.(83) In their study of adole”
Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Sexual Preoccupancy: A Three-Wave Panel Study (2008, methodology): “Although several studies on the use of SEIM have been published (Flood, 2007; Lo & Wei, 2005; Peter & Valkenburg, 2006a; Wolak et al., 2007), internally valid evidence of what underlies a potential influence of SEIM on adolescents’ sexual thinking is still missing.”
Adolescents’ Use of the Internet for Sex Education: A Thematic and Critical Review of the Literature (2013, background): “It is well documented that the Internet is used to view sexually explicit material (SEM), in addition to nonsexual entertainment and information (Fox & Jones, 2009; Peter & Valkenburg, 2006).”
Parental Mediation of Children's Internet Use (2008, background): “Most important, online risks to children are greater than are television-related risks (regarding the extremes of violent or pornographic content, privacy or contact risks from strangers, etc.), giving rise in turn to greater anxieties among parents (Peter & Valkenburg, 2006; Wolak et al., 2007).”
Unwanted Online Sexual Solicitation and Risky Sexual Online Behavior across the Lifespan (2010, background): “Previous research has acknowledged that online surveys are especially useful when sensitive issues like sexuality are investigated (Mustanski, 2001; Peter & Valkenburg, 2006, 2009).”
Online pornography use in adolescence: Age and gender differences (2014, background): “This study used cross-sectional data from a research project aimed at analysing the use of the Internet and online risks among Czech adolescents.”
Internet pornography use and sexual motivation: a systematic review and integration (2019, background): “Study Sample Characteristics Outcome Study Conclusions (Wright, Tokunaga, & Kraus, 2016b) Two cross-sectional studies of undergraduates in the U.S. xxx (Study 1, N = 310, 54.5% men; Mage = 20.4, SD = 1.8; Study 2, N = 418, 78.7% women; Mage = 21.2, SD = 2.8) Condom Use Pornography use (predominately”
X-Rated (2009, background): “Recent studies in Taiwan (Lo & Wei, 2005), Sweden (Haggstrom-Nordin, Hansom & Tyden, 2005), and the Netherlands (Peter & Valkenburg, 2006a) have documented ready access and frequent use, especially among adolescent boys, but none of these studies have been longitudinal or have assessed both…”
The Impact of Internet Pornography on Adolescents: A Review of the Research (2012, background): “Peter and Valkenburg (2006a) also surveyed Dutch adolescents (N = 471) in order to explore the use of sexually explicit material and the formation of sexual attitudes.”
Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Notions of Women as Sex Objects: Assessing Causality and Underlying Processes (2009, methodology): “Although previous research suggested selective exposure processes in adolescents’ use of SEIM (Flood, 2007; Peter & Valkenburg, 2006a, 2008a; Wolak et al., 2007), we now have some first evidence of how such selective exposure processes may look.”