A Port Erin man has admitted sexual communication with what he thought was two children.
Thirty-three-year-old Blake Robert Thomas Gelling thought he was messaging two girls aged under 16, but was actually talking to a child online safety team, with adults posing as children.
Gelling, of Edremony Estate, also sent an intimate image of himself to one of the parties.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual communication with a child, as well as distributing an intimate image.
Defence advocate James Peterson asked for a probation report and a psychiatric report to be prepared.
Gelling will be sentenced in summary court on August 27.
Bail continues, with a condition to contact probation and co-operate in the preparation of the report.