Summary:Sexting has acquired growing media and scientific consideration. An aggravated form of sexting, escalated sexting, nonetheless, has not been topic of many research. Moreover, these few studies targeted solely on causes for and consequences of escalated sexting. Sexting This research, therefore, targeted on exploring the strategy of handling escalated sexting that consists of both prevention measures and ad hoc reactions and the actors concerned in the process. Interviews based on the vital incident technique were held with 23 participants, who had been involved within the process of handling escalated sexting based on their profession or position as sufferer or relative. This study confirmed that the strategy of dealing with escalated sexting may be divided into two completely different stages: reacting advert hoc and prevention. Reacting advert hoc at escalated sexting situations occurs in seven phases. All of those phases consist of varied advert hoc reactions, which may be combined for one intervention technique to handle a selected scenario. When preventing, actions are focused at three teams: students, parents and school staff. This explorative examine has made the primary steps into discovering points of handling escalated sexting and subsequently has a number of scientific and sensible implications.