Ungdomars sexuella exponering på internet

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to study how the social workers understand the sexual exposure adolescents become subject to make themselves subject to on the Internet, as a social problem or a transformation of a sexual behavior. Two methods were used in this study; both a questionnaire and deep interviews with four social workers. The main result of the study shows that social workers, according to a theory of seven criteria of which five were fulfilled, think of the sexual exposure as a problem for a small group of adolescents and that society also view it as a problem. Despite this, the study also shows that social workers think of the sexual exposure online as a new stage for adolescents to express their sexuality as a compliment of earlier sexual behavior. When/If the sexual exposure becomes a problem for the adolescent, social workers use supporting methods to process the problem.