Considered the Masters and Johnson of Cybersex, Cooper pioneered academic research on the Internet in 1997. He views the Internet as potentially influencing the sexual health of our children in a positive way, if parents take an active role in their children's online activity. We're doing something wrong and the Internet is a way to get on track. Kids are interested in the Internet and in sex, but censoring or blocking doesn't work. Rather, he suggests parents install trackers on their computers, so they can monitor their children's online activity.
Children are savvy on the Net.
They know how to defeat filtering blockers. Though Cooper doesn't believe people get sexually addicted, he says they can become compulsive and develop problems with sexuality. Children, he says, unmonitored have easy access to the adult-oriented web sites and can become sexually excited, overly stimulated and very confused. Cooper suggests parents should have ongoing discussions with their children about sex, participate with them in their Internet activity and review helpful age-appropriate sites. This is the time to make an intervention.