Survey: One-Third of Youths Engage in Sexting

[The Straight Story]

Survey: One-Third of Youths Engage in Sexting


If you think the sexting phenomenon is growing, you’re not imagining it. According to a new survey, almost one-third of youths admit they’ve engaged in sexting-related activities that involved either e-mailing a photo or video of themselves in the nude or being the recipient of such images.

Of those who admitted to distributing suggestive images of themselves, about 61 percent report that they were pressured by someone to send the image. Girls were more likely to share a naked image of themselves than boys. Those who are already sexually active were much more likely to send an image than those who were not sexually active.

Most of the respondents sent the image to a significant other or a person of romantic interest to them. But 29 percent said they shared naked images of themselves with someone they knew only online.

These are some of the findings of a survey conducted by MTV and the Associated Press as part of a new multi-year campaign the youth-oriented television network launched on Thursday with numerous partners. The aim of the campaign, dubbed “A Thin Line,” is to educate teens and college-age students about safe and appropriate digital behavior.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/sexting-survey

[boobooday]

1. We may not approve

But I hope they are at least practicing safe sext.

[MineralMan]

3. They've all got special cell phone condoms.

They give them out in the school nurse's office, I hear.

[MineralMan]

2. So cell phones have taken the place

of back seats? How sad. Back in the good old days when I was a teenager, a guy had to wait quite a while before getting a look. Now, there's no waiting.

Wait...what?

[SpiralHawk]

4. I am shocked

shocked I tell you.

Kids these day.

Why can't they be like we were?

Groping each other quietly (more or less) in the backseat of our Model T's...

[JackintheGreen]

5. Or the front seat of our Plymouth Valiants N/T