Young girls meet sex buyers through online. But contact is not always through advertisements. Most often, children become uppsökta on sites targeted at young people.
It’s researcher Linda Jonsson at Linköping University whose dissertation examined the Swedish youth sexual behavior on the Internet. The thesis is based on several studies. Among other things, she has studied how contacts between young people and sex buyers established. In a sub-study, she met 17-year-old Natalie, one of the 15 young women who were included in the study.
Natalie and several other youth stories show that the first contact can be made via sites who do not have to do with sex. Examples include Bilddagboken, Kik, Facebook or online. For some of the young people was not the intention to sell sex online.
But they were visited by adults who gave compliments and otherwise established contact. Linda Jonsson describes it as a transport route for introducing them for six, a grooming process.
The study also confirmed , two other approaches: one was that the young people themselves advertised, second, that they themselves sought dejting- and sexsajter. For the majority of the young girls went ahead with the contacts that they sold sex for money, alcohol and other remuneration to adults before the age of 18 years. Today, they are between 15 and 25 years.
– Several also ended up in difficult situations They were used, among other things, for filming or other sex than determined, and did not dare say no, says Linda Jonsson.
It was also rarely that someone close to them knew that they had been visited by adult or sold sex. They told us not what they were doing. Common to all was that they felt mentally ill.
– This is important knowledge for those who work professionally with young people. Not least in terms of the police working outreach. While other professions have to ask what they are doing online. Many young people are ashamed and lack trust in adults. Therefore, they get a better treatment to feel confidence. We must open up to the children to tell as they can get support and treatment, says Linda Jonsson.
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