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

越来越多的人担心，年轻人不仅是网上儿童性虐待的受害者，而且他们还可以在网上促进有害的性行为。（Vaswani et al 2022，Finkelhor et al 2022和Hollis & Belton 2017）。这一关切在期待已久但迟迟未出台的在线安全法案（在线安全法案指南-英国政府（www.gov.uk））和儿童性虐待问题独立调查最终报告的公布（www.iicsa.org.uk）中显而易见。在一个专业的HSB团队中担任社会工作者超过17年，我观察到越来越多的年轻人由于通过技术展示HSB而被转介到服务机构。这段经历使我在硕士水平上在线研究HSB。通过我的硕士研究，我发现了研究知识和理解年轻人在线性行为的规模和性质方面的持续差距。迄今为止，对这个问题的研究仅限于一些小规模的研究，重点关注已知观看过儿童不雅图像的年轻男性（Belton & Hollis 2016），只有一项针对年轻人的全方位研究显示在线HSB（Hollis & Belton 2017）。虽然这项研究的结果已经引起了人们的认识，但迫切需要进一步研究，以加深了解，并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.