Matt Fuller

Seduced by sexting.

What is it? It's modern day phone sex that has a visual component, and is the outcome of improvements in technology facilitating new forms of intimate social interaction. Sexting someone usually allows people to engage in an instant exchange of sexually provocative videos and picture messages via a mobile phone.

Certainly sexual gratification and voyeurism are the main reasons behind sexting, however, most sexters don't take into account the ramifications of sexting after the act. A social risk involved with this practice is that sexually explicit images and videos that are exchanged can easily be published across the internet by recipients and whereby the sender has no way of stopping it's distribution.

What other negative issues can sexting present? If you engage in sexting with people from the internet, with people you don't know and have never met before, you'd better be certain you're not sending to or receiving sext messages from a minor. Associating with a minor ( knowingly or not ) when sexting, and if caught, carries the same label as participating in child pornography and is a serious criminal offence.

Sexting at school.

An entire district in the U.S. has banned it's some 200,000 students from exchanging provocative and naked pictures via their mobile phones - surely this is a rule that should be enforced in any school, and in any country! The ban also extends to internet and cyber bullying whether it's in or out of the school grounds when students from participating schools are involved. Studies published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy discovered that 20% of girls (14-17 years old) and 17% of boys (14-17 years old) had participated in posting pictures or videos of themselves partially or fully naked.

Is there a positive spin on sexting?

It is indicated that some single people who meet online and form a relationship engage in phone sex or sexting before an offline date. Online dating also pairs up many singles who are geographically disadvantaged, therefore sexting or phone sex is a perfectly legitimate and private act between consenting adults who may not have the benefit of regular physical contact with each other. There is also much to be said that sexting between established couples sets the scene for explosive real life sex.

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