Sexting is what we used to call teens sending nude photos of themselves via cellphone, now we usually just call it sending nudes. Here are some Teenage Sexting statistics. 11% of young teen girls between the age of 13-16 have sent or posted nude or semi-nude photos or videos of themselves online, 15% of teens who have sent or posted nude/semi-nude photos of themselves say they have done so to people they only know online, 36% of teen girls and 39% of teen boys say it is common for nude or semi-nude photos to get shared with people other than the intended recipient.
What is certain is that this phenomenon has definitely caught the attention of the media. And now there is some type of legal enforcement in all 50 states regarding sexting. A few years ago in 2009, Jessica Logan, 18, was a beautiful, vivacious, outgoing student in high school. Last year she sent a nude picture of herself to her then boyfriend who then sent it to a group of girls after he and Jessica broke up. What she had intended to be as private and intimate became public and the source of multiple humiliating texts and slurs. The cyber-bullying eventually led to Jessica taking her own life.
Jessica’s mother, Cynthia Logan, had launched a national campaign to call for a law to deal with sexting and to warn teens and young people about the dangers of taking and sending sexualized …show more content…
Others simply see this as an outgrowth of our highly sexualized culture, with sexual themes being ever present in movies, TV and music. Though some teens just see this as “cool” or “just a bit of fun,” sometimes oblivious of the consequences, emotionally, socially and in the eyes of the
What is certain is that this phenomenon has definitely caught the attention of the media. And now there is some type of legal enforcement in all 50 states regarding sexting. A few years ago in 2009, Jessica Logan, 18, was a beautiful, vivacious, outgoing student in high school. Last year she sent a nude picture of herself to her then boyfriend who then sent it to a group of girls after he and Jessica broke up. What she had intended to be as private and intimate became public and the source of multiple humiliating texts and slurs. The cyber-bullying eventually led to Jessica taking her own life.
Jessica’s mother, Cynthia Logan, had launched a national campaign to call for a law to deal with sexting and to warn teens and young people about the dangers of taking and sending sexualized …show more content…
Others simply see this as an outgrowth of our highly sexualized culture, with sexual themes being ever present in movies, TV and music. Though some teens just see this as “cool” or “just a bit of fun,” sometimes oblivious of the consequences, emotionally, socially and in the eyes of the