How to identify the Sexting

Nowadays one of the risks to which children and young people are exposed through the Internet is sexting, which has among its most serious aspects the voluntariness of its protagonists, that is, they are physically and emotionally exposed with their consent. For the collaborating psychologist of Fundación Queveo, Bárbara Martínez, when detecting a situation of sexting, the most important thing is to clearly show the risks to which they are exposed, since in most cases they are not dimensioned, they trust the recipients and feel pressure for doing the same as your group membership:

Threats to privacy

The contents that one has generated can end up in the hands of other people of which the author does not have control. Once a file is sent, control of the broadcast of the file is lost. When a person sees his image of sexual content spread on the network, he is subjected to a public cruelty or humiliation that can produce in the child anxiety, depression, social exclusion and blackmail.

Cyberbullying

When a person sees his image of sexual content spread on the network, he is subjected to public cruelty or humiliation that can produce anxiety, depression and social exclusion in the child.

Sextorssion

If the images are in the hands of inadequate people, they can become an element to extort. That is, the blackmail in which someone (minor or elderly) uses these contents to obtain something from the victim, threatening their publication.

Groomig

This is defined as the set of strategies carried out by an adult with the objective of obtaining the child's trust through the internet, in order to obtain concessions of a sexual nature. If the images with sexual content of a minor arrive at the hands of an ill-intentioned adult who decides to use them for, threatening their publication, forcing the minor to emit more images, this is a case of grooming.