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Maybe you don’t know but many children, teens and adults are meeting up physically and having virtual sexual interactions and also pornography is a major way these start, not to mention the amount of teen and child pornography online that is proclaimed “over 18” because the uploader lied about their age. I already wrote in another comment about my own experience as a survivor of online sexual abuse from adults and porn addiction as a minor. Data on finding out how many

It is a real problem, and we are being harmed. Obviously in many places sending explicit pictures as a minor is a crime, and finding adult study participants willing to talk about their sexual interactions with children is tricky, but you can find a lot online about negative consequences of general sexting among minors.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650829/ [2]: https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/Document/November-2... [3]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019712...

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