Lust, Love, and Life: A Qualitative Study of Swedish Adolescents' Perceptions and Experiences with Pornography

Sex-Related Online Behaviors and Adolescents’ Body and Sexual Self-Perceptions

“…7,8,17,[19][20][21][22] Specifically, higher levels and/or faster increases in SEIM use predicted more body surveillance among boys and less satisfaction with sexual experiences among both boys and girls. Moreover, our study found that these effects extend to online behaviors other than SEIM use: sexual information seeking also predicted more body surveillance among boys and less satisfaction with sexual experiences among boys and girls.…”

“…19,20 Consistent with these theories, previous studies have indicated that adolescents' exposure to sexual content (offline and online) is related to more body surveillance and body image concerns and to less satisfaction with one' s sexual experiences. [5][6][7][8]21,22 In most studies, sex-related Internet use was operationalized as adolescents' use of sexually explicit Internet material (SEIM). However, sex-related Internet use may incorporate a range of receptive and interactive online behaviors, functioning as entertainment, information seeking, communication, and cybersex (virtual sexual activity).…”

“…To address these gaps in the literature, the current study used a developmental and contextual framework to examine how adolescents' engagement in different sex-related online behaviors predicts their body and sexual self-perceptions. 1,22,30 ; therefore, we studied the aforementioned questions for boys and girls separately.…”

Dutch Adolescents’ Motives, Perceptions, and Reflections Toward Sex-Related Internet Use: Results of a Web-Based Focus-Group Study

“…Less attention has been paid to the various contexts in which sexrelated Internet use may take place, as well as young people's differential motives, perceptions, and reflections toward the use of the Internet for sex-related purposes (Attwood, 2005). Second, although several studies did use qualitative methods to gain insight into adolescents' views on sex-related Internet use (Attwood, 2005;Häggström-Nordin, Sandberg, Hanson, & Tydén, 2006;Löfgren-Mårtenson & Månsson, 2010), most of these studies focused on young people's experiences and opinions with regard to sexually explicit Internet material (SEIM) or pornography. As a consequence, adolescents' motives, perceptions, and reflections toward other sex-related online behaviors that relate to information seeking, entertainment, and communication are less well understood.…”

“…However, adolescents may also use the Internet to seek different types of information, such as advice or inspiration for enhancing their sex lives. On a related note, qualitative studies among Swedish 14-to 20-year-old adolescents found that searching for and viewing pornography may serve different purposes, and that attitudes and feelings toward pornography are complex and often ambivalent (Häggström-Nordin et al, 2006;Löfgren-Mårtenson & Månsson, 2010). Second, sex-related online behaviors are not equally common among adolescents.…”