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Apparently teens taking risqué photos of themselves is turning into a full-on epidemic. Researchers from Teenage Research Unlimited have finally put some hard numbers to the anecdotes about teens getting themselves in trouble with revealing photos.
According to the study, commissioned by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com, 22-percent of teenage girls and 18-percent of boys have taken nude or semi-nude photos of themselves and sent them to someone or posted them online. And a third of young adults (20-26 years old) have done the same.
Young adults and teens view sending these photos and suggestive text messages as simple digital flirting. 39-percent of teens and 59-precent of those young adults say they've sent naughty texts a means of flirting.
Often, however, these photos do not stay private. The statistics clearly indicate that such revealing photos are often shared, usually after a break up. Over a third of teenage boys and 40-percent of young men have reported receiving or seeing such private photos.
Even though 73-percent of those surveyed understood that sending revealing photos could have serious negative consequences, it seems like many are choosing to ignore the danger and share them anyway. [From: USA Today]
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Subscribe to commentsskipDec 12th 2008 6:23PM
cherokee---stick it
MandaDec 12th 2008 7:39PM
It's all Miley's fault! haha. Nah. It is gross and wrong, I don't find that kind of stuff trendy.
jeetsDec 13th 2008 12:12AM
To Anne - There is a problem in what you say. How do you know what age the person is? I doubt anyone could get in trouble unless maybe the pictures were pre-pubescent. No one is trafficking porn. Besides, would it matter what age the person was (over or under 18) if they were putting their own pictures, of their own free will, out there? If it did, I would think there would be massive arrests going on right now.
GaryDec 14th 2008 2:14AM
Thomas 37???? LMAO! WTF is Thomas 37? Is it the same prophet as JohnnyWad9?
ChrisDec 13th 2008 8:59AM
I knew about this about a year ago. My granddaughter ( then 13 ) was talked into sending a nude picture of herself, via cell phone, to a boy who was 18 at the time. The boy was brought up on charges and now has a criminal record and actually faced some serious jail time. This is not legal. Another bad part of this is that the picture can now and forever be used in many possible places, as in the internet. There just kids, but know this.... There are consiquences to your actions. Good actions usally result in good consiquences. Bad choices the opposite. Right after we found this out we started hearing about it on the news.
JimmyDec 13th 2008 2:00PM
A Bible... a Bible! Learn to separate the chaff from the grain in the Bible-- there is MUCH chaff, as you "Christians" know-- you who conveniently spout the OT when you need it, and ignore it when you don't. And you know to what verses I refer, you hypocrites. God's gonna GET you !
JenDec 16th 2008 7:03PM
On the flip side- I was sixteen and in a bad situation with a boy who wouldn't let me leave. He said he'd let me go if he took the pictures, so I did, there wasn't really another choice. They were semi-nude and I was a virgin too. He promised he would keep them to myself and I trusted him because I'd known him for a while. Surprise, surprise- they got out to everybody. Even my dad's coworkers saw them, even though my parents never found out. Obviously it was a bad decision on my end, but there's often more to the story then "slutty" girls sending out nude pictures to everybody.
JordanJan 12th 2009 11:05PM
Ok, I have a different view on the situation.(This refers to boys or girls that are in a personal relationship) I think that when young teens do this, that they are just exploring in new territory. Teens are just learning and exploring their sexuality. They have many sexual feelings, and they just want to share those feeling with their boyfriend/girlfriend. It's not just the boys that pressure the girls into sending inappropriate messages/pics/videos, no sometimes actually it goes in reverse. Boys cannot be blamed for 100% of it. Girls naturally have a want to fee accepted by their boyfriends. They also just want to well, perform for them. Boys and girls just need to explore feelings by doing this. And you can't tell me that all through your years that there was never one person you would want to see "in the buff". You wanted to share those feelings with that person, usually it didn't work. All kids are doing is exploring. Let them have their fun.