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The Internet and Adolescent Sexuality: Understanding Their Interaction and Seduction Rituals.
Through the internet, teenagers are developing new rituals of interaction and courtship: signaling their desire to be liked and to enter into a romantic relationship. Jocelyn Lachance...
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The Personal Through the Social: Adolescents and New Information and Communication Technologies.
Although sometimes demonized by adults and a source of misunderstanding between young people and their parents, social media—which emerged from the internet and mobile...
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The Role of Parents as Their Child Explores Their Sexuality
Children and adolescents have changed in their attitudes toward sexuality. Through changes in parenting, among other factors, they are much more deeply immersed than before in the...
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The Internet and social media: a new landscape for trainers.
Training programs for sexuality education instructors have been in place within the French Ministry of National Education since 1997. They aim to train professionals so that they, in...
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Internet Use and Perceptions of Sexuality Among Young People: What Is the Connection?
Internet and social media use has grown significantly among 13- to 25-year-olds over the past decade. Is this new way of accessing information and interacting changing young people’s...
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The Internet as a Source of Information on Sexuality: Between Other People’s Lives and Social Norms.
Yaëlle Amsellem-Mainguy conducted two surveys of young people aged 14 to 25 to see how they use the Internet to learn about contraception and sexuality. Today, the Internet is the...
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Teens and Pornography: An Analysis of a Controversy.
Should we be concerned about the potential harmful influence of pornography on adolescents’ sexuality? Sociologist Florian Voros presents his analysis of the issue here and encourages a...
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Fil Santé Jeunes: The Internet—a different way to communicate.
In addition to its telephone helpline, Fil Santé Jeunes has developed a website that allows teenagers to access information and ask questions anonymously to psychologists and doctors,...
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Start with the spoken word.
The French Family Planning Movement provides sex education in schools and at its offices. The goal is to foster dialogue between boys and girls and, with the emergence of new online...
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Social media can blur the line between the private and the public.
The Horizon Family Planning and Education Center, located in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, provides information and guidance to young people, particularly on issues related to sexuality...