Explicitly Pressing Send: Impact of Sexting on Relationship Satisfaction

Sexual Satisfaction and Sexual Behaviors During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Results From the International Sexual Health and Reproductive (I-SHARE) Health Survey in Luxembourg

“…Sexting and cybersex might have acted as a tool for different sexual activities in a person or couple's sexual repertoire (30). Our results are in line both with other studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic that found the use of digital means for sexual communication a way to maintain oneself sexually active (7) and with the literature on sexting and relationship satisfaction that found higher relationship satisfaction in people who engaged in sexting (31,32,33).…”

Online abuse: problematic for all Australians

“…Such acts have numerous monikers, including cyberstalking (Bocij, 2004; Spitzberg and Hoobler, 2002), cyberharassment (Citron, 2009a) and image-based sexual abuse (Bates, 2016; Powell and Henry, 2019). Most academic literature focuses on the experiences of young people enrolled in university and college, with little research exploring the experiences of online abuse of other age groups, with the exceptions of Currin et al (2016a, 2016b) and Garcia et al (2016). Most research also demonstrates a strongly gendered pattern where women are disproportionately the targets of online abuse and men are the perpetrators.…”

“…Revenge porn is now considered a pejorative term used mostly in media publications (Bates, 2016; Dekeseredy and Schwartz, 2016; Eaton et al , 2020; Henry et al , 2019). Revenge porn is a distinct form of online abuse that became conflated with sexting, which gradually became recognised for its pleasurable aspects and flirtation (Currin et al , 2016a; Currin et al , 2016b; Garcia et al , 2016; Klettke et al , 2014; Lee et al , 2015). This signalled a significant shift from the earlier literature that sought to “responsibilise” (Salter, cited in Lee et al , 2015) young people (especially women) for negative consequences arising from sexting, akin to early sexual assault prevention advice.…”

“…Sexting between adults is legitimised as fostering intimacy within an existing relationship and escapes the punitive stance of criminalisation applied to teenagers (Currin et al , 2016a, 2016b; Garcia et al , 2016; Klettke et al , 2014). An alternative motive behind adult sexting is the desire to attract a new partner (Currin et al , 2016a; Currin et al , 2016b; Klettke et al , 2014). Sending amateur sexual imagery is an unorthodox and crude method of seduction enabled by internet technology (Currin et al , 2016a; Currin et al , 2016b; Garcia et al , 2016; Klettke et al , 2014).…”

Is sexting bad for adolescent girls’ psychological well-being? A longitudinal assessment in middle to late adolescence

“…Sexting-associated risks may be greater for marginalized groups (Currin et al, 2016;Van Ouytsel et al, 2019), including adolescent girls, whose gender socialization often makes them particularly susceptible to negative consequences of sexuality-related peer pressure and social evaluation (Tolman, 2002). Yet, as one recent meta-analysis on sexting noted, there has been a surprising absence of attention to sexual and gender identity in the existing sexting literature (Kosenko et al, 2017), making socio-demographic differences difficult to decipher.…”