Understanding young people's online sexual behaviour, nature, cases, context and consequences

人们越来越担心，年轻人不仅是网络儿童性虐待的受害者，而且还可能为网上有害的性行为(HSB)提供便利。(Vaswani等人2022、Finkelhor等人2022和Hollis&Belton 2017)。这一关切从备受期待和拖延的网上安全法案(网上安全法案指南-GOV.UK(www.gov.uk)和儿童性虐待独立调查最终报告的出版(www.iicsa.org.uk)中可见一斑。我在一个专业的HSB团队担任社工超过17年，我观察到越来越多的年轻人因为通过技术展示HSB而被转介到服务中。这段经历让我研究了硕士级别的在线HSB。通过我的硕士研究，我发现了在研究知识和对年轻人在线性行为的规模和性质的理解方面持续存在的差距。到目前为止，对这一问题的研究仅限于几项小规模研究，重点是已知曾观看过儿童猥亵图像的年轻男性(Belton&Hollis 2016)，只有一项针对在网上展示HSB的年轻人的全谱研究(Hollis&Belton 2017)。虽然这项研究的结果提高了人们的认识，但迫切需要进一步的研究，以加深了解，并能够制定适当的对策和资源，以满足这一青年群体的需要。

There is a growing concern that young people are not only victims of online child sexual abuse but that they can also facilitate Harmful Sexual Behaviours (HSB) online. (Vaswani et al 2022, Finkelhor et al 2022 and Hollis & Belton 2017). This concern is evident in the much anticipated and delayed online safety bill (A guide to the Online SafetyBill - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and the publication of final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (www.iicsa.org.uk). Having worked as a Social Worker in a specialist HSB team for over 17 years, I observed the growing number of young people being referred to services due to displaying HSB through technology. Thisexperience led me to research online HSB at Masters level. Through my Masters research, I identified ongoing gaps in research knowledge and understanding of the scale and nature of young people's online sexual behaviour. To date, research into this issue has been limited to a few small-scale studies focusing on young males who had been known to have viewed indecent images of children (Belton & Hollis 2016), with only one full spectrum study into young people displaying online HSB (Hollis & Belton 2017). While findings from this study have generated awareness, further research is urgently needed to develop a deeper understanding and to enable appropriate responses and resources to be developed to meet the needs of this group of young people.