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5) Which role do television, the Internet and mobile phones play in these forms of sexualbehaviour?There has been a strong increase in images of (instrumental) sex on television in the past fewyears. Furthermore, the Internet offers numerous new possibilities in the area of sex, in termsof coming into contact with erotic material as well as interactions of a sexual nature. Boththeoretically and intuitively the assumption can be made that the confrontation with imagesof a sexual nature has its impact. There is no empirical evidence that this development isconnected with instrumental sexual behaviour among teenagers, with changing sexualattitudes or with the incidence of sexual coercion among youth. However, there are severalindications that it does.For example, it appears that young people who often watch sexualised media more often haveexperience with sexual intercourse and have their first sexual experiences at a younger age.Young people who watch sex programmes on television more often than average, becomesexually active 9 to 17 months earlier than young people who watch such programmes lessoften. In addition, a higher consumption of sexuality in the media is connected with a higherassessment of the sexual experience of peers and more gender stereotyped opinions. Themore young people, especially girls, watch sexualised images in the media, the morepreoccupied and the less satisfied they become with their looks. In this context a connectionwith sexual violence is conceivable, as a correlation is often also found between suchexperiences and a negative self image. In addition, for boys, correlations have been foundbetween the use of music videos and the Internet and the expectation they will not respectboundaries.When studying the effects of media use, it is of importance to look at certain protective andrisk factors. The influence of sexual images in the media is not the same for all youth. Theyare not passive receivers, but select certain images themselves, watch them with more or lessattention and interpret them in different ways. For example, watching (violent) porn appearsto be exclusively connected to violent sexual behaviour in men who already are inclined to it.Furthermore, the connection between watching sexual images and more sexual behaviour andmore permissive attitudes is stronger in young people who indicate that they positivelyevaluate the images in the media or find them realistic. Parents could play a mediating role inthis respect, for example by placing the images in the media in a more realistic perspective inconversations with their children or by talking with their child about what (s)he is doing andexperiencing on the Internet. For example, young people who indicate that their parentsinterfere more often in their use of the media, think less permissively about a number offorms of instrumental sex. Young people who say they often talk with their parents aboutwhat they are doing on the Internet, have fewer negative experiences on the Internet.6) What is known about the reaction of the police and social care to sexual violence thatmight occur in these forms of sexual behaviour, and is there any effective prevention of thesesituations of sexual violence?
As mentioned before, it is not clear to what extent instrumental sex is harmful or nonconsensualand therefore it is not clear to what extent prevention is required. Whenprevention would be desirable, parents could play a part. They could do so by trying to beinformed about their children’s lives, by showing affection and by being there for themwhenever it is needed. They could also teach their children to question the media, rather thanabsorb it uncritically. Parents could watch television together with their children, discusswhat they see and, if deemed necessary, impose restrictions with regard to programmes thatare unsuitable for children’s viewing in their eyes.Social care and police can only do something when help is requested or an offence isreported. This does not happen frequently with regard to the forms of teenage sex that are thefocus of this research. When there is a case of obvious sexual violence or prostitution, itsometimes does happen. In such cases the intervention by social care and the police is oftenconsidered inadequate. Both are insufficiently geared towards the youth’s perception of theirenvironment. Care is fragmented and in some municipalities almost non-existent.Furthermore, hardly anything is known about effective interventions.Summing up, it can be stated that changes are taking place in the incidence of sexual imagesin the media and in the sexual morals and behaviour of young people. Theoretically thesechanges definitely involve risks, but to what extent this is actually the case, is impossible tosay with any degree of certainty. There are indications that the most extreme forms ofinstrumental sex only occur among a small (vulnerable) group of young people. This groupdeserves our attention. Adjusting interventions to the changing context of sexual developmentis a requirement to this end. These interventions should be geared towards the youth’sperception of their environment and, more specifically, to the perception of specific targetgroups, such as young people with a mental disability or young people from specificsubcultures.
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As mentioned before, it is not clear to what extent instrumental sex is harmful or nonconsensualand therefore it is not clear to what extent prevention is required. Whenprevention would be desirable, parents could play a part. They could do so by trying to beinformed about their children’s lives, by showing affection and by being there for themwhenever it is needed. They could also teach their children to question the media, rather thanabsorb it uncritically. Parents could watch television together with their children, discusswhat they see and, if deemed necessary, impose restrictions with regard to programmes thatare unsuitable for children’s viewing in their eyes.Social care and police can only do something when help is requested or an offence isreported. This does not happen frequently with regard to the forms of teenage sex that are thefocus of this research. When there is a case of obvious sexual violence or prostitution, itsometimes does happen. In such cases the intervention by social care and the police is oftenconsidered inadequate. Both are insufficiently geared towards the youth’s perception of theirenvironment. Care is fragmented and in some municipalities almost non-existent.Furthermore, hardly anything is known about effective interventions.Summing up, it can be stated that changes are taking place in the incidence of sexual imagesin the media and in the sexual morals and behaviour of young people. Theoretically thesechanges definitely involve risks, but to what extent this is actually the case, is impossible tosay with any degree of certainty. There are indications that the most extreme forms ofinstrumental sex only occur among a small (vulnerable) group of young people. This groupdeserves our attention. Adjusting interventions to the changing context of sexual developmentis a requirement to this end. These interventions should be geared towards the youth’sperception of their environment and, more specifically, to the perception of specific targetgroups, such as young people with a mental disability or young people from specificsubcultures.