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Poll finds that one-third of all youths may be involved in child porn . . . er, sexting

By Douglas A. Berman

This new Wired story, which is headlined "Survey: One-Third of Youths Engage in Sexting," provides the basis for my post title.  Here are the details: 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...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).