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Article: Adolescents' sexual self-disclosure on the Internet: deindividuation and impression management.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Adolescents' sexuality in real life has been widely explored in past research on such subjects as sexual attitudes (Werner-Wilson, 1998), sexual orientation (Frankowski, 2004), homosexuality (Harrison, 2003), sexual knowledge (Fisher, 1986), sexual behavior (Cubbin, Santelli, Brindis, & Braveman, 2005; Gowen, Feldman, Diaz, & Yisrael, 2004; Rostosky, Wilcox, Wright, & Randall, 2004), and sex education (Somers & Gleason, 2001; Song, Pruitt, McNamara, & Colwell, 2000). However, human sexuality on the Internet is a growing area of research in the social sciences (Cooper, 1998; 2002). Researchers have only recently begun to gather empirical data concerning online sexuality ...