ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the development of information communication technologies (ICTs) – primarily through the Internet – has impacted the ways some individuals discover and explore various aspects of their sexuality. It investigates how ICTs have increased the ease of the discovery, enactment, and modification of various forms of sexual deviance. The chapter examines how such exposure to various mediums of sexual deviance are believed to lead to "real-world" consequences. It discusses various media, legislative, and law enforcement responses to the dangers of new ways of viewing/expressing sexuality on these mediums. Although related to sexting, another newer online sex crime that has emerged is revenge porn. Online Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, and Masochism (BDSM) communities have also seen a change in how users portray themselves. According to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, pedophilia refers to recurring and sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or other behaviors that involve sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children.
