Dr. Ramey is the executive director of Dayton Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Center for Mental Health Resources and can be contacted at [email protected]. Sending and receiving sexually ...

Sending and receiving sexually explicit photos (sexts) is now a well-established stage of adolescent sexual development for a significant number of teenagers. Research published in the October journal ...

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston say that sexting may be the new "normal" part of adolescent sexual development and is not strictly limited to at-risk teens. The ...

A far cry from looking at a sensual magazine centerfold, today’s adolescents are viewing online pornographic videos with motions and sounds, depicting every potential sexual act that can be imagined.