Comments on: Why There’s Nothing Wrong With Sexting

By: Camile

Camile — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:18:38 +0000

I agree with the author of the referenced article that most of the teens that do these things are not thinking in terms of porn or pedophilia. When I was in high school, girls gave their boyfriends provocative pictures of themselves as gifts and took pictures of themselves flashing their bras at slumber parties. The differences I see between then and now are that: a)it was easier to get rid of pictures ten years ago because we could destroyed the picture and the negatives and b) it’s much easier to hit “send” on a cellphone than it is to make copies. I honestly feel that teens would think twice about some of their actions if their parents would talk to (not lecture or yell at) them.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:55:39 +0000

The CBS Sunday morning news had a story about sexting and the consequences this morning. One of the guys interviewed made a great observation. He said what teens don’t realize is that when they send explicit pics of themselves through technology, it becomes a “cyber tatoo” which is difficult to ever remove.

I would encourage all parents and teen leaders to google this story and share it with their teens because it showed a couple young people who are listed as sex offenders and having difficulty moving beyond a simple text message they sent in high school

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:41:42 +0000

I love this. Not really. I work in telecommunications and see a lot of pathetic middleaged people that do a lot of this as well. It’s an epidemic. The problem I have with this article is that those who are giving their opinions assume that the rate of promiscuity among the previous “spin the bottle” generation is ok. They assume the new generation will also be ok as long as they don’t get worse than the previous generation. This is stupid. We know that the world doesn’t necessarily care about the moral aspect of promiscuity, but there are a ton of statistics that show how poverty likes single mothers. These statistics would also reveal that the majority of abortions are due to promiscuity (not the tragic rape cases that the liberal media puts in the forefront). The real issue is not sexting. It is promiscuity in general. As for the kid who is now a registered sex offender, that kind of stinks for him. If I were that judge, I might would have warned him first, but I can’t feel too sorry for him in his actions. The bottom line is this: sexting has given parents something other than promiscuity to focus on. That’s the real stupidity here. Parents don’t have the guts to lay down standards for their kids, so they get their authority fix by being outraged by “sexting.” This is just a distraction to the real problem.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:03:23 +0000

I’ll go out on a limb here and say I do not feel that it should be made a sex crime to participate in sexting based upon the current laws. Would it be illegal for these people to be on webcams or in person displaying themselves in this fashion? or would it be illegal for them to take part in sexual activities? I think the standard laws for sex should be used for sexting. If you’re not dealing with pedifile cases or unconsenting distribution of these pictures, I really don’t see how they could be made illegal.

Morality might lead me to think differently, but we’re talking about laws not morals and we all know sometimes one has nothing to do with the other.