• ESTHER PINILLA J.

    @EstherPinillaJ1

    Madrid

Updated Tuesday, 5July2022-01:32

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"Hello beautiful, let's fuck?", "You look like you have a great ass", "

Do you want to see what I have hidden?

".

These are some of the messages Celia, 23, receives on the

dating app Tinder

.

While she slides the mobile screen, she observes different profiles.

And she rejects them one after another.

It is common to talk about sex when starting a relationship on social networks.

So much so that

42% of young Spaniards have received messages with explicit content

through various platforms.

This is stated in the study

Impact of technology on adolescence.

Relations, risks and opportunities in 2021

, carried out by

UNICEF

and for which more than 50,000 people were spoken to.

"It is found that

sexting

practices are becoming more common," the organization said.

Sexting

consists

of sending sexual photos or videos over the Internet, something that has spread over the last decade and more during the pandemic.

"

What can happen if I send a picture of my ass?

It's my body," reflects M., 16.

However, this practice carries a

risk

, since the content can be forwarded -such as the sexual video of the actor Santi Millán leaked a few days ago-, and with it, be a victim of what is known as

revenge porn

: sharing sexual photos or videos without consent for the purpose of harm.

"Anything that involves sending intimate content to another person means losing control of it, with the consequences that this may entail," warns

Verónica García-Muñoz

, child and adolescent psychologist at Ohana Psicología.

Cristina, 23, has also had a profile on Tinder for more than three years: "I was talking to a guy and we agreed to meet at night in a hotel. It was at the time of the Covid curfew, so I knew that I had to sleep over.

I was trying to chat with him, but he just wanted to take me to bed

. We ended up doing it in the end and he fell asleep. So even though I knew we couldn't,

I went home

. It was disappointing."

The pandemic

was an accelerator of relationships through the screen

.

Nobody could leave their house and the only way to establish a relationship with others was through social networks.

According to the CIS in 2021,

40.2% of women consider that screen relationships involve less commitment

compared to face-to-face relationships.

"And more security?"

49.5% of them also deny it.

This is explained in its report on

Social and affective relationships in times of the COVID-19 pandemic

.

Several responses suggested that this new way of flirting is more dangerous and less reliable.

But

why do they go online to seek a relationship

?

García-Muñoz maintains that "they are designed to generate an engagement due to the

immediacy, the feeling of control, the search for new sensations and the possibility of avoiding conflicts

".

It was also during lockdown that 25-year-old Alicia first experienced

ghosting

.

"I was talking to a guy for several months and ended up sleeping with him. Days later, he stopped responding to me. That's when I realized he was

ghosting

me ."

It is a technique that promotes

toxicity

in relationships on networks and that consists of disappearing from the life of another person, ignoring them.

It literally translates to "

ghost

".

Like this technique, there is another one:

orbiting

, version 2.0 of the previous one.

It is about

neither with you nor without you of a lifetime

, but applied on the internet.

The distance that exists with

ghosting

is maintained but, suddenly, they reappear, gossip your Instagram photos, leave a like on a photo...

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For

Silvia Congost

, an expert psychologist in emotional dependency, toxic relationships and couple conflicts, the best way to avoid these risks is clear: "With information and sexual education. Learn to identify it so that they can realize if they are being victims of this ( mis)treatment".

Fortunately, a new technique is now beginning to be used to prevent these situations:

hardballing

.

It consists of establishing from the outset the objectives that you want to reach: chatting, establishing an affective relationship or having sexual relations.

This way, you can quickly decide whether to keep talking or nip the conversation in the bud.

What the experts agree on is that there is a "

great lack of sexual education among the youngest

".

Both in educational centers, where only talks are given, and in homes.

In 2022, 4.2% less was invested in sexual

and reproductive health compared to the previous year.

Almost 530 million euros are allocated in the

General State Budget

Project , of which only two and a half million are for the Ministry of Health -19% less than in 2021-, according to the Family Planning Federation (SEDRA).

"It is quite sad that a young person does not receive such important information," Congost stresses.

That is why young Spaniards turn to

other alternatives,

such as porn

.

García-Muñoz thinks that "easy access to pornography is the fastest way to obtain information."

But, according to Congost, "what they obtain

is not realistic and does not offer a balanced vision between men and women due to the clear sexist connotations

that exist".

In this way, "teaching sexual health is essential" so that young people do not fall into false myths and errors when dealing with sexuality.

Parents

, in this aspect,

play a key role in

facilitating this sexual education.

"There should be a total openness at home to talk about sexual issues," says Congost.

"That the children do not perceive that it is a taboo subject, but that they give them advice seeing

sex as something good and natural

, but showing them that there are always limits that must be placed where one feels it, being sex an activity that always has us to make them feel good. This way, if they have any problems or doubts, they will go to them".

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