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What are you watching on your phone?"
If you are a parent of a teenager, you must have said this phrase hundreds of times, sometimes worried about what he might actually be looking for or viewing on the internet.
If the sexuality of young people worries adults, digital uses crystallize these anxieties.
It is clear that, for most teenagers, the web is the most obvious place to learn about sexuality.
Few of them want to, or can, ask an adult about this.
The screens have therefore become a space of virtual intimacy where they can anonymously ask all their questions without fear of being disapproved or judged.
A sociology survey conducted in 2018 by Yaëlle Amsellem-Mainguy and Arthur Vuattoux, researchers at the National Institute for Youth and Popular Education (Injep), shows, moreover, that the uses of the Internet are plural and depend of young age.
During the college years, they are
“first of the order…
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