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Texting trend: Naughty flirting, skanky teen sex

View the article here 01/25/2009 Last week I worked a piece on sexting from the Tennessean for tn.net. It got a lot of local attention, but since then I've found out that story was only an introduction to this fad. Here's the background as explained by the Impact Lab, "The tools of courtship have changed. Move over SMS, MMS and texting, the latest trend is sexting - the sending of x-rated text messages or photos to someone on the cellphone. It?s like having a complete foreplay experience via text messaging." OK, I guess this is a predictable use - or misuse - of the technology. Isn't is a natural extension of the dust ups over the MySpace profile pics? But with cell phones texts and photos there's no moderator ... no one to delete the photo - undo the deed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).