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.
As my father told me once after I was brought home by the police, "Son, I told you - NEVER GET CAUGHT."
We now have on this planet the biggest governments, corporations, academic institutions, and religions the world has ever seen.
for the purpose of this thread, I'l just deal with the issue of governments. Governments are in the business of regulating people just like cigarette manufacturers are in the business of making cigarettes regardless of the cost to society, the public health disaster, etc. Government just like corporations pose a social health hazard to the human population because their business is to regulate people, and the bigger they get the more they have to justify themselves, and they're organizations that can only exist by taxing the people in their artificial geographical boundaries to employ their politicians and bureaucrats to enforce their sheets of paper called constitutions, and laws to regulate people which is their only purpose for existing.
If governments were held to scientific sta...
We now have on this planet the biggest governments, corporations, academic institutions, and religions the world has ever seen.
for the purpose of this thread, I'l just deal with the issue of governments. Governments are in the business of regulating people just like cigarette manufacturers are in the business of making cigarettes regardless of the cost to society, the public health disaster, etc. Government just like corporations pose a social health hazard to the human population because their business is to regulate people, and the bigger they get the more they have to justify themselves, and they're organizations that can only exist by taxing the people in their artificial geographical boundaries to employ their politicians and bureaucrats to enforce their sheets of paper called constitutions, and laws to regulate people which is their only purpose for existing.
If governments were held to scientific standards everything they could easily be challenged, and stopped since nothing governments do is based on anything scientific.
If you study any government on the planet, and they're all the same, half of their sheets of paper called laws are laws to regulate sex, the other half are laws to regulate money.
So why do we need these organizations called governments? Well if you're going to have a socioeconomic system in place that can't stand on it's own, that needs a state to enforce it, than governments are very much necessary. Monogamy, and exchange based economies be it the monetary system, barter, feudalism, or chattel slavery are systems that can not stand on their own, they need to be enforced otherwise they would collapse, and even with the state in place those systems can only stand for a very limited time, that's why every society that's been based on exchange, and monogamy has collapsed without exception.
The actual perpetrators must face charges, because there is always a reason why such strict laws exist. If you're a minor, you really are a minor. Wait till you're 18 to call it "your life", because, until then, it technically isn't - the adults around you are responsible for your actions, at least to some extent.
Once you're old enough and start earning, and can take the full responsibility for all that you do - good and bad, you're free to call it "your life", and THEN, do as you please.