A-3. Sexting
Teenagers Sending Sex Via Text Message
- Local Kids Use Cell Phones To Take, Send Naked Pictures - 4029 TV (US), October 30, 2008
Kids, with their cell phones, taking naked pictures
of
themselves and their friends, and forwarding them to everyone they know.
It may sound far-fetched, but chances are, it's happening at a middle
school near you.
The problem has been growing nationally, and 4029 wanted to find out
whether cell phones were being used to send and receive naked pictures
of underage kids in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley. The answer
was a definitive yes.
Teenagers uploading sexual images
to internet - Dan Buckley; The Irish Examiner, September 06, 2008
A growing amount of sexually explicit images of youngsters is being
put on the web by the teenagers themselves, according to an expert in
online abuse. [...]
"As a result, we are seeing the increasing criminalisation of
children, but that is not the answer."
Survey: Teens sharing nude images online
- Recent survey finds that sex, tech and teens make bad bedfellows - today.msnbc.msn.com, December 10, 2008
According to the results of a survey released today [...] 22
percent of all teen girls - and 11 percent of teen girls ages
13-16
years old - say they have electronically sent, or posted online,
nude or
semi-nude images of themselves.
And these racy images are also getting passed around: One-third (33
percent) of teen boys and one-quarter (25 percent) of teen girls say
they have had nude/semi-nude images - originally meant to be
private - shared with them.
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What's the Matter With Teen Sexting?
- Sex and predatory adults are not the biggest dangers teenagers face
online. Their main risk is garden-variety kid-on-kid meanness - Judith Levine, www.prospect.org,
February 2, 2009
[....] the logical conclusion of the Harvard study:
