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Tribune Opinion: Dangers of sexting becoming evident

By "eAdvocate"

12-10-2009 Colorado:Remember when you had to whisper something risqué into the basement phone and hope your parents ? or your boyfriend's or girlfriend's parents ? were too busy yelling at the contestant to buy a vowel on ?Wheel of Fortune? to care?Now, thanks to some tech geek's idea to put cameras in cell phones, our children face a new danger.Media representatives, because we're clever, call it ?sexting.??Sexting,? as you might guess, is texting with ? well, you get the picture. And pictures are exactly the problem. Teens these days have somehow figured out to text one another and attach sexually explicit photos and videos. We are shocked ? shocked! ? that they would do this.The problem is it can mean serious trouble.When you say something, it disappears into the air...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).