Dekker Arne
Institut für Sexualforschung und Forensische Psychiatrie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Deutschland.
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2017 Sep;60(9):1034-1039. doi: 10.1007/s00103-017-2595-9.
Digital media are used for the purpose of various sexual experiences. In recent years the exchange of erotic text messages or images ("sexting") has gained the attention of academic research and has increasingly been the center of public discussion on sexual boundary violations and violence via digital media. The unwanted forwarding of images to a third party is especially relevant in this respect. In contrast to media reports about sexting as a risk behavior with serious consequences, there is little empirical analysis about the actual sexting practice of adolescents and adults in Germany.
This paper is the first to describe sexting behavior of young adults in Germany on the basis of a large representative student sample.
Data were collected in 2012 in the course of a nationwide study. Students from 15 universities were asked among other things about their experiences with sending erotic text messages or images, the non-consensual forwarding of images and its consequences.
More than half of the student sample reported sending erotic text messages, 26.8% of women and 16.8% of men had sent erotic images to someone, in most cases to their partner. Of the sexters, 2% mentioned that their images had been forwarded to another person without their consent.
The results indicate that in Germany sexting is mostly practiced in the context of a romantic relationship. Only a small percentage experience unwanted forwarding of images, and negative consequences are not reported for all incidents; however, this does not relativize the impact of those events implicating serious negative consequences for the involved person.
数字媒体被用于各种性体验目的。近年来，色情短信或图片的交换（“ sexting”）已引起学术研究的关注，并日益成为关于通过数字媒体侵犯性边界和暴力行为的公众讨论焦点。在这方面，未经同意将图片转发给第三方的情况尤为突出。与媒体将sexting报道为具有严重后果的风险行为不同，德国对于青少年和成年人实际的sexting行为的实证分析很少。
本文首次基于具有广泛代表性的学生样本描述德国年轻人的sexting行为。
2012年在一项全国性研究过程中收集数据。来自15所大学的学生被问及他们发送色情短信或图片的经历、未经同意转发图片的情况及其后果等问题。
超过一半的学生样本报告发送过色情短信，26.8%的女性和16.8%的男性曾向某人发送过色情图片，大多数情况下发给了他们的伴侣。在发送色情内容的人中，2%提到他们的图片未经同意被转发给了其他人。
结果表明，在德国，sexting大多发生在浪漫关系背景下。只有一小部分人经历过图片被未经同意转发的情况，而且并非所有此类事件都报告有负面后果；然而，这并不减轻那些对涉事者造成严重负面后果的事件的影响。
