20 Percent of Teens Partake in 'Sexting': Should They Face Charges?
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2012/06/15 18:00:00
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Whatever the latest technology is, teenagers will use it to get up to no good. But that doesn't make it any less alarming that nearly 20 percent of high school students partake in sexting, according to a new study.
Donald Strassberg, of the University of Utah, found that nearly 20 percent of high school students (18 percent of males, 17 percent of females) admitted to having sent a sexually explicit image on their cellphone. Almost twice as many said they had received a sexual image on their phone (50 percent of males, 31 percent of females), LiveScience reports.
And here's the really scary part: About 25 percent confessed that when they received a sexually explicit image, they forwarded it to others. Plus, more than 8 percent said they had sent a sexually explicit photo that they took of someone else to a third party.
And here's the really scary part: About 25 percent confessed that when they received a sexually explicit image, they forwarded it to others. Plus, more than 8 percent said they had sent a sexually explicit photo that they took of someone else to a third party.
But here's the thing, kids: You can get into big trouble for doing this. In many states, sending or receiving nude pictures of someone under 18 (including yourself) could put you at risk of facing child pornography charges. Do you think teens who sext should face charges?
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+21It's their life if someone else sees it and it not their boyfriend or girlfriend or whoever who cares not my life.
Having said that, does that make you a pedophile?
Oh, and fix your ignorance. Statutory rape is a state by state issue, so get all 50 of your blanket statement facts straight before you start calling highschool kids pedophiles.
Oh, and by the way.... some libtard somewhere is crying over how little boys and girls aren't protected enough from each other in sexual situations, even though they want children to be more exposed to sex.
what state you live in most are going under child porn laws.
In the United States, it is against the law to possess lewd photographs of minors. A New York lawyer is petitioning for federal sexting legislation that would make sexting a misdemeanor for minors.
Teens are going to do it whether you (or anybody else) like it or not (which I would hope you don't like it!!!) Most teens are rebellious and are going to find different ways of 'expressing' themselves And unfortunately this is one thing that some teens choose to do. They need to be talked to and somebody they look up too should explain to them that it can end up on the internet/end up in a pedophiles hands, it could get dangerous depending on who sees it. Not too mention the fact the you send it too 'that one person' and they ARE going to show their friends