Teen Sexting Essay

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Teen Sexting Introduction to Popular American Culture Teen Sexting Most parents worry about their children. As their children get older and roam farther and spend more time away from home they want to give their kids the tools that they need in case of an emergency. Parents will give them, for example, a cell phone. Parents figure that armed with a cell phone if their child gets stranded or in trouble they can use their phone to call and ask for help. The most a parent thinks they have to worry about is a large phone bill if the kids go over their minutes talking to their friends, right? Not any more. In the past couple of years there has been a growing epidemic with cell phones that may cause long-term harm to teens and the harm is not coming from an outside source but from the teens themselves. Sexting. A recent poll released by National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy shows that 20 percent of teens admit to “sexting” (Nightingale, 2009). Sexting is the new trend in teen flirting by sending nude or semi-nude pictures to each other by cell phone. A young man and young lady meet in class. They find one another attractive and exchange cell phone numbers. Over the next few days and weeks they send each other text messages, talking and flirting. As things progress they start sending images of themselves to one another. The teens do not think that what they are doing is wrong; after all it is their business and just between them. If it stayed just between the two of them it might not be a problem, but it very rarely stays between the two of them. They are both likely to show off the pictures because they want their friends to see how hot the love of their life is. It really starts to become a problem when they forward the pictures to their friends and from there the friends send them to other people. From the cell phone to their
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