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?
Top Opinion
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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.
It should be a "No No".. left to the parents to control.
If we are going to enact laws on certain behaviors.. then why not make laws on all behaviors, and just make all kids wards of the state! Then tax the parents, so much per kid for kid-care! That would make all kids equal, raised by the same rules, by the same committee of people!
Yea... I agree - - ridiculous idea.. and so it this.
Anyway, I say no in the sense of comparison to what is seen through the internet. Of course, it's a bad thing and something that should be known. Should they face charges, hard to say...Yes and no. While evidence is evidence, I fear breach of privacy issues may come up. Ahh, there are so many sides to this...
But if they send a photo of someone else under 18 with or without that persons permission that is a problem that needs to be addressed?
Leave them be. They end up worsening/ruining their reputation anyway.. Let 'em learn..
UNLESS in the case of those people sending out the pictures that they had taken of others.. Future creepers right there..
If you look into other countries, you will find out that we are the only one that makes that big of a deal about it. Now, That is not to say that they don't need to be in trouble for it. Especially if the one sending the picture did it behind someones back.