The Role of Sexual Images in Online and Offline Sexual Behaviour With Minors

Abstract

Sexual images have long been associated with sexual interest and behaviour with minors. The Internet has impacted access to existing content and the ability to create content which can be uploaded and distributed. These images can be used forensically to determine the legality of the behaviour, but importantly for psychiatry, they offer insight into motivation, sexual interest and deviance, the relationship between image content and offline sexual behaviour, and how they might be used in online solicitation and grooming with children and adolescents. Practitioners will need to consider the function that these images may serve, the motivation for their use and the challenges of assessment. This article provides an overview of the literature on the use of illegal images and the parallels with existing paraphilias, such as exhibitionism and voyeurism. The focus is on recent research on the Internet and sexual images of children, including the role that self-taken images by youth may play in the offending process.

An exploratory study of public reports to investigate patterns and themes of requests for sexual images of minors online

“…Where chat logs have been used, these involved adults pretending to be children. In addition, while the use of sexual images has been noted in both offender and victim studies, this has not been critically examined (Quayle and Newman 2015). The aims of the present study were to use online reports from the public to Cybertip.ca to explore: the types of behaviour that alerted concerned adults, and occasionally young people, to make a report; information available about the young person; information about the suspect, and how both suspect and young people interacted in the exchange of text and images.…”

Adherence of HIV Self-Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in China: Longitudinal Study

“…There is a trend that internet users tend to be younger in China [ 38 ]. Quayle and Newman [ 39 ] indicated that some images and messages with sexual inducement on the internet offered sexual motivation and interest to users, especially for minors. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the internet-based HIV prevention and testing services for minors.…”

Estructura factorial del Cuestionario de Experiencias Relacionadas con Internet en universitarios chilenos

“…adicción a Internet) hasta nuevas formas de delinquir (ej. abuso sexual online), tal como lo han documentado diversos autores (Berner y Santander, 2012;Block, 2008;Quayle y Newman, 2015).…”