Samantha
Cruz
Final
Blog
12, 5,
2014
In today’s generation, young
teenagers are experiencing different things in their life, and one of those things
is called SEXTING. Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit messages
through mobile devices. Teenagers are growing up faster than we know it and
they are having sex at a younger age. Statistics show that teenage girls, only
40% do it as a joke, 34% do it to feel sexy and 12% do it for pleasure. As for teenage boys, only 40% report to sexting.
I know sexting might sound fun at the moment but what these young adults don’t
know is that there are consequences to their actions. In an article by Lori
Henderson, “Sexting and Sexual relationships among teens and young adults”, she
stated that “In an era of social networking and technological change, the youth
of America are faced with severe negative consequences for this new phase of
technologically enhanced self-expression, including jail sentencing and
suicide.” Many debates have been issued due to the overwhelming numbers of
teens and young adults who are being arrested and charged with possession and distribution
of child pornography.
This
becomes a huge issue since you’re mostly “sexting” you don’t know whether or
not your pictures or messages are being viewed by one person or many persons’,
The other problem is that most predators, don’t know whether or not if their “sexter”
is over the age of 18, this is when it gets more serious since it’ll be
consider child pornography. So, in this study by Lori Henderson; there are
three reasons why young adults participate in this kind of behavior. One reason
is to initiate sexual activity between partners; (boyfriend or girlfriend) as
an experimental phase of their sexuality prior to ever having sexual
intercourse, and as a way to enhance current sexual relationships. It shows
that teenage girls/ boys have sent nude messages to keep or gain a female’s or
male’s attention. Two thirds of female teen and young adults have sent these
types of messages as a sexy present for a boyfriend, while over half of males
sent them to be flirtatious. Surprising, nearly half of females felt pressure
from males and nearly one fifth of males felt pressure from females. The purpose
of this study was to show the attitudes and behaviors in teens while they’re engaging
in these types of behaviors. Most of the time that teenagers sext is because of
self-expression, or because they want to engage in sexual activity.
Now,
although sexting might have its disadvantages like your business and nude’s out
in the public, getting charge for child pornography and etc, there might be
some advantages of sexting. Some advantages of sexting is that you don’t have
to actually have sex with this person because they might be too far away or
because, like it said in the article sexting is “FUN”. This behavior will
prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Remember, before you
send out any nudes or sexual texts, those messages and nudes are 90% being viewed
by more than one person. Also, once you post a nude online you no longer own
that picture and it doesn’t matter if you delete it or not because it’ll still
be in the internet owned by someone else getting viewed by thousands of people!
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