“Sexting”. Does this work mean anything to you? If you have a teenager, then you need to know all about this latest trend among teenagers. Sexting is when young kids under the age of 18 take explicit or inappropriate photos of themselves with their camera phone and then send the photos to their friends using MMS (Multimedia Messaging Services), an advanced multimedia version of SMS. According to the results of a survey by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, one in five teen girls (22%) – and 11% of teen girls ages 13-16 years old — say they have electronically sent, or posted online, nude or semi-nude images of themselves. These racy images are also getting passed around: one-third (33%) of teen boys and one-quarter (25%) of teen girls say they have had nude/semi-nude images shared with them when they were not the intended recipients.

Unfortunately many teenagers are not aware of the potential consequences of sending these inappropriate photos of themselves. Consequences of sexting have included embarrassment, depression, arrests on charges of child pornography and even death.

Jesse Logan, an 18 year old Ohio girl, committed suicide after nude photos originally sent to her boyfriend were forward to other girls at her high school after they broke up. Jesse was harassed, bullied, and called names such as slut and whore to such an extent that she was driven to commit suicide.

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