This article describes the prevalence of receiving online sexual requests and producing online sexual
images among adolescents, thereby focusing on the differences between problematic and non-problematic
incidences. Data was used from a national survey conducted in 2011 among 4453 Dutch adolescents
(51.2 % male), aged from 11 to 18 (M = 13.9, SD = 1.48). Results indicated that receiving sexual
requests is quite common and that producing sexual images is relatively rare. From adolescents’
perspective most of the incidences were non-problematic. Negative experiences were more likely to occur
when adolescents interacted with people they did not know and when an intrinsic motivation for engaging
in sexual interaction was missing. There was a strong relation between bothersome experiences and being
cyberbullied. Adolescents with a higher level of online disinhibition and with low self-control were more
likely to engage in both sexual communications as well as in sexting. Identifying which incident
characteristics and characteristics of adolescents are related to problematic online sexual interactions is a
prerequisite to design more personalized tools for vulnerable adolescents.