Boer Sarah, Erdem Özcan, de Graaf Hanneke, Götz Hannelore
Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Rutgers, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2021 May 10;12:655796. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.655796. eCollection 2021.
Many adolescents use their electronic devices to send each other sexually explicit texts, photos, and videos of themselves-commonly known as sexting. This can be fun and is not usually problematic. However, if the intended recipient decides to share these sexts with a broader audience, the consequences for the depicted can be detrimental. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of (non-consensual) sext-sharing among Dutch adolescents and explore the characteristics of those who do, to gain a better understanding of factors involved in dissemination. We used data from "Sex under the age of 25," a representative national survey on sexual health among a sample of 20,834 Dutch 12-24-year-olds. The prevalence of sext-sharing was estimated using Complex Samples. Logistic regressions were used to assess associations between demographics, school-based sexting education, sexual- and online behavior, and mental health and sext-sharing. About 4% of the adolescents reported having shared someone else's sext in the last six months. Being male, aged 12-14 years, frequent social media usage, watching online porn, sexual experience, and being subjected to sext-sharing themselves associated most strongly with sext-sharing. Our findings show that the likelihood of sext-sharing is lower in older adolescents and that it associates with the extent of adolescents' sexual curiosity and online activity. The overlap between sharing sexts of others and having one's own sext shared suggests that dissemination of personal sexual content might be normalized or used as an act of retribution. Further research could be helpful to explain the mechanisms underlying this overlap. The results of this study illustrate the importance of exposing adolescents to evidence based preventive educational interventions on sexting from 12 years onwards and not just within the context of traditional school-based sex education, but also as a part of the (online) media-literacy curriculum.
许多青少年使用电子设备互相发送自己的露骨色情短信、照片和视频，也就是通常所说的“性短信”。这可能很有趣，通常也不会有问题。然而，如果预期收件人决定将这些性短信分享给更广泛的受众，那么对于照片或视频中的人来说，后果可能是有害的。本研究的目的是调查荷兰青少年中（非自愿）性短信分享的流行程度，并探究分享者的特征，以便更好地了解传播过程中的相关因素。我们使用了“25岁以下的性行为”的数据，这是一项针对20,834名荷兰12 - 24岁青少年样本进行的具有全国代表性的性健康调查。性短信分享的流行程度采用复杂抽样进行估计。使用逻辑回归来评估人口统计学特征、基于学校的性短信教育、性和网络行为以及心理健康与性短信分享之间的关联。约4%的青少年报告在过去六个月里分享过他人的性短信。男性、年龄在12 - 14岁、频繁使用社交媒体、观看网络色情内容、有性经历以及自己曾遭受性短信分享与性短信分享的关联最为紧密。我们的研究结果表明，年龄较大的青少年进行性短信分享的可能性较低，并且这与青少年的性好奇心和网络活动程度相关。分享他人性短信与自己的性短信被分享之间的重叠表明，个人性内容的传播可能已被正常化，或被用作一种报复行为。进一步的研究可能有助于解释这种重叠背后的机制。本研究结果表明，从12岁起就让青少年接受基于证据的预防性性短信教育干预非常重要，不仅要在传统的学校性教育背景下进行，还要作为（网络）媒体素养课程的一部分。
