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Modern teenagers, society's sexuality and the internet

By Douglas A. Berman

ABC News has this interesting new piece highlighting how today's teenagers may be pushed by societal influences into becoming unwitting sex offenders.  The piece is headlined, "Inside the Minds of Teens Who Post Sexual Images of Themselves: Internet Facilitates Self-Nude Photos but Teens Miss the Implications," and here is how it starts:Despite specific warnings from prosecutors, the 15-year-old Ohio girl who was arrested last week and accused of sending nude pictures of herself to classmates probably doubted that she could ultimately be forced to register as a sex offender under state law, psychologists and Internet experts say.  More than likely, they suggest, she was only after a sliver of notoriety, the product of a culture where pornography has gone mainstream and fame can be had in an instant by simply distributing a sexually explicit video with a cell phone or on the Internet...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 17, 2008 (boomark / email).