Sexting - What's the fascination with it?

[CudDULL]

It becomes a big deal when people end up dead because of it.

Oh here we go...

 

[boiseboy]

I've sexted, but i never include face with it. Who knows where the pictures could go.

 

[bluedragon4]

Go back and read the original post. He was talking about younger people. Not 36-year-old men.

No, he was telling me my pics could end up anyplace. You go back and reread the posts. People on here are so quick to try and call some shit out on here. I hate that about JUB.

 

[NedNickerson]

There are kids being arrested and charged with
trafficking in child pornography in the United States as well:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/01/29/violetblue0129.DTL

And the consequences of being charged with child pornography or being convicted as a sex offender can follow a person for years. Look at this:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003101190_offender03.html

Let's do a little "where are they now" with teens who have been charged with felony sex crimes: take the case of Wendy Whitaker, now 29 years old. She's been on Georgia's sex offender list for more than a dozen years. Last year, Whitaker was evicted from her home; a nearby church was running an unadvertised daycare service and Georgia's law prevents sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, swimming pools, school bus stops, day care centers, parks, recreation centers or skating rinks. At a November 13, 2008 hearing, U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper declined to halt Whitaker's eviction. Whitaker sued, but how did she become a sex offender in the first place? When she was 17, she gave a 15-year-old high school classmate a blowjob (and obviously, got caught). She said she feels "punished over and over for something I did as a teenager."

 

[Lube]

^ That is absurd.

Is she a "sex offender" that I wouldn't want near my kids?

Hardly.

 

[spencer]

Girls want attention and will do anything to get it from boys. Boys are just horny toads and like showing off.

So they end up texting nude pictures as a result. And as adult they end up posting it on message boards and tube sites, sound familiar?

 

[gsdx]

Oh here we go...

And, once again, I'm told I'm not entitled to an opinion.

Knock yourselves out and have fun.

 

[spikebaltar]

Is the OP asking what is the media/public fascination with it, or what is the fascination with teens?
I think with younger kids, it's the new 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours.' Kids have been doing this since forever, and modern laws/society just hasn't caught up with the role digital technology plays in all this. Who of us didn't play around with the Polaroid camera as a kid?
With older teens, it's obviously an extension of their sexual activity.
As far as worrying a pic is going to be posted online and sometime in the future, it will destroy someone's life...I think that's overblown. No online images can be taken at face value. Any image can be manipulated, especially the low quality snapshots that get posted online. It would be all too easy to just claim fakery of any pic floating around. And with 30% of all teens taking nude pics of themselves (and lets face it, its probably higher than that; I'll be willing to bet in 5 years polls will show about 50%) employers and college admissions officers would have their hands full trying to deal with all the supposed pics of people.

With the media, its the new sensational topic. Funny how a trend gets discovered and picked up by the media for a while and sensationalized until it just becomes a known part of life.

 

[frankfrank]

I'll never understand the American fascination/disgust with sex and sexual things...

I never will, either. One teenage mistake can fuck up your entire life. Somebody who committed armed robbery, murder, grand theft or sabotage isn't put on any kind of restricted list (where they can't live within some distance of any school, daycare center, etc.)...but you can be on such a list for the rest of your life because of a friggin' blow job?

I think it's no accident that one President got the U.S. into a war based on lies and only got considerable media censure, and another president (during the same rather recent era) got IMPEACHED because of a blow job.

I find this even more perplexing when the media is rife with sex jokes, the commercials are an almost endless parade of gorgeous cheesecake and hunks (and, often, dressed in very sensual/sexual attire), some "morning zoo" radio shows are little more than a three-or-four-hour-long joke about sex, etc. All of this exposure to sexuality is absolutely fine and dandy...

Then Janet Jackson "innocently" flashes a boob during Halftime at a Super Bowl in such quick fashion that probably no more than 20% of people even noticed in the first place, and THE WHOLE FUCKING NATION ALMOST CRASHES AND BURNS?

Yeah we'll keep it in front of you and it will get you all worked up and horny and all that...but if you act on it, we'll fuck you over big time.

 

[SilverWolf]

I never will, either. One teenage mistake can fuck up your entire life. Somebody who committed armed robbery, murder, grand theft or sabotage isn't put on any kind of restricted list (where they can't live within some distance of any school, daycare center, etc.)...but you can be on such a list for the rest of your life because of a friggin' blow job?

I think it's no accident that one President got the U.S. into a war based on lies and only got considerable media censure, and another president (during the same rather recent era) got IMPEACHED because of a blow job.

I find this even more perplexing when the media is rife with sex jokes, the commercials are an almost endless parade of gorgeous cheesecake and hunks (and, often, dressed in very sensual/sexual attire), some "morning zoo" radio shows are little more than a three-or-four-hour-long joke about sex, etc. All of this exposure to sexuality is absolutely fine and dandy...

Then Janet Jackson "innocently" flashes a boob during Halftime at a Super Bowl in such quick fashion that probably no more than 20% of people even noticed in the first place, and THE WHOLE FUCKING NATION ALMOST CRASHES AND BURNS?

Yeah we'll keep it in front of you and it will get you all worked up and horny and all that...but if you act on it, we'll fuck you over big time.

Well said!