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It's no surprise that adults often misunderstand, and are scared by, teen behavior. Therefore, it shouldn't come as a shock to hear that fears over the "sexting" craze might be a little overblown, according to some experts. Many attendees at Sex Tech, a conference on technology and sex education ending today in San Francisco, feel that the news stories and panic over sexting are just the latest in a long line of unnecessarily perpetuated fears. The start of the hubbub was a study by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, which said that 20-percent of teens had posted or texted nude or seminude pictures of themselves at some point. Following that, many teens have been arrested for the practice, with some even being charged with child pornography.
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Talking to the San Francisco Chronicle, Deb Levine, director of San Francisco's Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS), said that although 20-percent of kids might have sexted each other, it's still a good sign that 80-percent haven't. She also sees an opportunity to use the technology for education, case in point being ISIS' "Sex Info" texting service that she helped found -- a program that seeks to answer young people' questions about sex by text message.
While 20-percent is still an alarming number, we think that everyone should just calm down a bit, take a deep breath, and find some more rational ways to handle this, instead of screaming and blaming technology (in lieu of perfectly natural hormones) for corrupting teens. [From: San Francisco Chronicle]
Teen Texting Craziness
Syracuse University professor Laurence Thomas made news last year for walking out of the classroom whenever his students disobeyed his "no texting in class" rule. Wouldn't the kind of student who would text in class be happy to have class canceled?
In January, 13-year-old Californian Reina Hardesty sent 14,528 text messages from her cell phone. Fortunately for her daddy, he had her on an unlimited text plan.
Two high school cheerleaders in Seattle were suspended from school in December when school officials found out that they had taken nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones and, mistakenly or not, wound up with them circulating through the football locker room. The girls' parents have filed suit against the school. You'd think they would just let the embarassment die quietly.
In December, while on a class trip (according to an Internet rumor anyway), the above message appeared on 18-year-old Elizabeth Frisinger's phone after mistakenly texting her dad, back home in Cleveland, that she'd just lost her virginity. Whoops!
Outdoing Reina Hardesty, 15-year-old Ohioan Paige Hornev averages 15,000 text messages a month. That comes out to the impressive, or pitiful, average of 500 text messages a day.
Thinking about Emily Jenning's texting abilities just makes our thumbs hurt. The Vancouver, British Columbia teen pumped out an absurd 41,600 text messages in the course of a single month -- we did some quick calculations and that works out to about one text every minute.
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Subscribe to commentsinasense524Sep 7th 2009 10:55AM
this is getting way out of hand, its not a crime to have sex. why is it a crime to send sexually suggestive messages, okay its a crime if one person is under 18 and the other is over 18 yes, but if its two teens okay slap on the hand punishment or something not jail. They have hormones, society is so twisted, smh, there was a point and time when people got married and started their families at the age of 14 and 15. Now all of a sudden you can not even think of sex unless you what age ???? 30??? I'm of age and I'm a married adult and I waited till I was college age but If i felt to do it before I would have. Its just a matter of being responsible.