We’ve all heard stories about the unthinking transmission of sexually explicit material via telephone texts. We’ve even been a bystander to the more notorious episodes (two words: Anthony Weiner).
But when the willing participants in such naughty trafficking are children, there is less smirking and more worrying.
But a recent study in the journal Pediatrics concluded that kids don’t text sex stuff as much as conventional thought suggests.
“Sexting”—sending or receiving risqué or even explicit photos or videos on a cellphone—is legally fraught when it involves a minor. It’s a criminal offense. It’s child pornography.
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