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Table 5 Online sexual abuse—risk behaviors, internet behavior and pornography consumption

From: Online sexual abuse of adolescents by a perpetrator met online: a cross-sectional study

 

Not sexually abused on the internet

n = 5498–5663

Sexually abused on the internet

n = 31–32

p-valuea

n

%

n

%

p

Alcohol use last year

 Drink 2–3 times or more per month

1944

34.2

11

34.4

ns

Drug use ever

 Ever used drugs, including cannabis

1316

23.3

15

48.4

.001

Sexual debut (mean age/SD)

15.55/2.50

 

15.78/1.78

 

nsb

Number of sexual partners

 ≥ 6 partners

950

25.5

9

37.5

ns

Time spent per day

 Computer/tablet ≥ 5 h

1275

22.2

9

28.1

ns

 Social media ≥ 5 h

839

14.8

9

28.1

.035

 Mobile phone ≥ 5 h

1813

32.0

13

40.6

ns

Internet behavior last year

 Shared your e-mail, telephone number or address to someone you only knew through the internet

  Yes, several times

682

12.0

14

43.8

< .001

 Looked for someone online to talk, sex with

  Yes, several times

215

3.8

12

38.7

< .001

 Looked for someone online to have sex with

  Yes, several times

200

3.5

11

35.5

< .001

 Been offended by crude sexual language when you chatted with a person you only knew through the internet

  Yes, several times

212

3.8

9

28.1

< .001

 Sent nude pictures

1385

24.4

23

71.9

< .001

 Posted nude pictures (community/internet site)

109

1.9

8

25.0

< .001

Pornography

 Have you ever looked at pornography

  Yes

3865

68.1

23

71.9

ns

 Have often have you looked at pornography the last 12 months

ns

  Not at all

34

0.9

0

0.0

 

  1–2 times

1131

29.3

3

13.0

 

  Sometimes each month

898

23.2

9

39.1

 

  Sometimes each week

1196

30.9

9

39.1

 

  More or less daily

606

15.7

2

8.7

 
  1. a p-value based on Chi square or Fisher’s exact test
  2. b p-value based on Mann–Whitney’s U-test