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As we always suspected, internet sexual predators are totally uncommon and much less dangerous than thought.
An important research center published an interesting article on American Psychologist (a scientific journal), based on actual, real data (something Italian criminologists and "experts" don't use often).We discover, among other things, that:
1) Internet-related sex crimes are a pretty small proportion of sex crimes that adolescents suffer
2) Internet predators are not pedophiles, but rather try to engage adolescents
3) Usually the Internet is just a communication medium, sex crimes take place in very common ways
4) That most of the times the victims go willingly to meetings in order to have sex with predators. This is still a crime, of course, but different from the usual picture of someone who abducts or rape the victims
5) Only 1 predator in 20 faked a young age to meet their victim, contrary to the usual story of fake accounts and fake teens
