Adolescents, sexual information, and the Internet’s role between family, school, and peer groups.

"The research seeks to understand how Italian adolescents use the Internet to gain and access information about sex, intimacy and related activities. Hence the research objectives are: (a) to understand what web-sites, chat-room, forum, and so on, adolescents use in order to have access to information and discussion connected to sexuality; (b) to understand why they use (or do not use) this media; (c) to define the extent of the internet’s influence on the youths’ experience of sexuality and their social construction; (d) to understand if there are gender differences in the use of the Internet regarding this specific topic". (Scarcelli, 2014, pp. 41-42).