The sending and receiving of sexually explicit cell phone photos (“Sexting”) while in high school: One college’s students’ retrospective reports

Predicting the Willingness to Engage in Non-Consensual Forwarding of Sexts: The Role of Pornography and Instrumental Notions of Sex

“…Studies have shown that between 3 and 24% of adolescents (e.g., Fleschler Peskin et al, 2013;Mitchell, Finkelhor, Jones, & Wolak, 2012;Strassberg, Rullo, & Mackaronis, 2014;Wood, Barter, Stanley, Aghtaie, & Larkins, 2015), and about 23% of adults (Garcia et al, 2016) have ever engaged in NCFS. This suggests that the large majority of young people still refrain from engaging in such behavior, although social desirability bias may affect these numbers.…”

“…As a result, the content in pornography, as well as instrumental sexual attitudes and behaviors, is more likely to be congruent with the sexual socialization of males, thus leading to stronger effects among males. Relatedly, males have been shown to engage in more NCFS than females (e.g., Strassberg et al, 2014), to be more frequent pornography users, and, in some instance, seem to be more susceptible to the influence of pornography on sexual attitudes and behavior (Peter & Valkenburg, 2016). At the same time, mixed findings on gender differences have also been found, both for the engagement in NCFS (see Walker & Sleath, 2017 for a review) and the effects of pornography (Peter & Valkenburg, 2016).…”

Mobile Phones and Education in Sub‐Saharan Africa: From Youth Practice to Public Policy

“…Strassberg et al . () argue (in a US high school context, where this is common) that, while it is unlikely that treating those who send or receive such messages as sex offenders is a useful reaction to the issue, we need to understand sexting among teens more fully, if we are to ‘know how, or even if, we should respond’ (p.182). In South Africa, there are official police reporting procedures that make this a sensitive issue (Badenhorst ).…”

“…In formal education, internet access (whether through PC or mobile phone) is recognised, worldwide, to have enormous potential to expand pupil learning opportunities, not merely in terms of enabling easier access to information directly relevant to the curriculum, but also in helping to give pupils voice and agency as they explore their place in the world (Hughes, Burke & Morrison, ; The Economist, ; Valkenburg & Peter, ). However, negative impacts of mobile phone usage (especially, but not only, relating to internet access) are also emerging among school‐age children, in both the global North and South (Cook, Heycoop, Anuntavoraskul & Vibulphol, ; Stark, ; Strassberg, Rullo & Mackaronis, ). As yet, detailed published research on the impact of mobile phones on youth in educational contexts in sub‐Saharan Africa is sparse, although smart phone proliferation is certainly changing information communication technologies (ICT) access dramatically for Africa's pupils (Farrell & Isaacs, ).…”

Sexting and Sexual Behavior, 2011-2015: A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of a Growing Literature

“…Prevalence also varies across studies involving adult samples, with some reporting rates as low as 30% and others as high as 81% (Klettke, Hallford & Mellor, 2014). Scholars (e.g., Ringrose et al, 2012;Strassberg, Rullo, & Mackaronis, 2014) have attributed these discrepant findings to various methodological issues, including sampling problems. For example, nonprobability and adult samples frequently yield the highest prevalence rates, and, like most sex research, sexting studies rely heavily on convenience samples (Dunne, 2002;Klettke et al, 2014).…”