Teenagers and “sexting” By Rosanna Mazzitelli @rosanna94359828
In a world where everyone is hyper-connected, and where all curiosities and information are searched for Online, the use of technology to experience sexuality certainly could not be an exception. Equally obvious is the fact that adolescents begin to know and approach sex through the Internet, in its various forms.
T I'M Italian Issue 11 January 2021
he stage of adolescence physiologically brings with it curiosity and the drive towards sexuality, both in terms of simple curiosity and through the desire to experience it practically. From various studies it emerges that the age in which boys come into contact with sexual content is getting lower and lower and already in preadolescence we find boys who in an often unconscious and immature way approach sexual content, even going so far as to practice sex, in a moment of life in which there is still no psychological maturity to understand its value. In this context, we can well understand how the hyper-connection in which young people find themselves living and therefore the continuous contact with people, known or unknown, who may be a few or many kilometers away, has also favored sexuality find space in the virtual world.
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