Sexting

So, my class right now as I'm typing this is reading an article about sexting. A girl in 8th grade had taken a picture of herself nude, and sent it to her boyfriend. Another girl pressured the boyfriend to send her the picture, then she took the picture and added a text into it. The text said "Ho alert! If you think this girl is a hoe forward this to everyone you know." The text spread through the school like wildfire. She would get calls and texts from people she barely knew about the text.

Needless to say the conflict grew, and the eighth grade girl who posed was extremely embarrased. Police and teachers would arrest and confiscate cell phones respectively from children in the school. The state attorney ended up charging the boyfriend, and two of the other people who spread the photo around with child pornography, but the charge was lifted and community service terms with approval from the girl and her family given.

Everybody felt bad about it, but it still had scarred her. Sexting is apparently a large problem in the community. Teens will do it often, they like to, but when their picture is forwarded it hurts. I mean, how embarasing would it be if everyone that you knew and everyone else in the school had seen you naked and was staring at you during your classes, sometimes looking or saying dirty things.

It isn't illegal. Distributing it however is considered child pornography, as long as the picture is of someone under 18. People do it and will continue to do it, and its perfectly fine so long as people don't forward it and keep it exclusive between the couple.