<p>I feel stupid… When I first read the word “sexting” I thought that meant texting for a bootycall.</p>
<p>^ same here!</p>
<p>Some Vermont legislators seek to make sexting legal. See [Vermont</a> Lawmakers Look To Legalize Teen ‘Sexting’ - wcbstv.com](<a href=“http://wcbstv.com/technology/sexting.vermont.teens.2.983956.html]Vermont”>http://wcbstv.com/technology/sexting.vermont.teens.2.983956.html)</p>
<p>The purpose isn’t to encourage it but to prevent those who do it from ending up withe permanent sex-offender records. What do you think?</p>
<p>I think it takes it a bit too far for them to end up with permanent sex-offender records. Just the thought of being labeled as one of those for the rest of your life is one of the scariest things ever. But yeah, not too much point of sexting when you can just pick up the phone and start the sensual talk ;).</p>
<p>If I ever found my daughter doing this…I would be very upset</p>
<p>Classifying this action as a felony is beyond unreasonable. Teenagers do dumb things constantly and I don’t believe they should be punished for acting irresponsibly for exploring their sexualities. Prosecuting a child under the age of sixteen for child pornography is downright unprecedented and sick in terms of the law.</p>
<p>Sex-texing shouldn’t be encouraged. I’m sure no one wants their nudes to be pasted around school in fear of embarrassment and ridicule. Some teenagers simply have poor judgment when deciding whether or not it is safe to send a nude picture to their significant other. I think schools should suspend their students in grounds of inappropriate sexual behavior, which would be a fair and proper punishment for the act.</p>
<p>Hopefully most of them will wise up to the fact that text messages and electronic pictures are so easy to replicate these days.</p>
<p>I personally don’t think it’s a big deal. Have I sent risque pictures before? Yeah, to my boyfriend, who I know wouldn’t show them to anyone else. I don’t really care about the issue myself, but even if you believe it to be wrong it should certainly be approached as a moral, not legal, issue.</p>
<p>I think nude or partially nude or half-naked or sexually provocative- it’s all the same to me. It wouldn’t be that much of a deal if they sent the girl around in a bathing suit, so let’s get over it. </p>
<p>Perpetual sex offenders… Uhm… Ridiculous. I don’t think anyone in high school deserves it.</p>
<p>I’ve also done it before (not with regular text messages, but pictures) with two of my previous girlfriends. Here is the catch: they went to different schools. I would almost certainly not do it with anyone I knew went to my school unless I had some massive, massive trust with her, which I could never see happening at my school.</p>
<p>It’s the fault of Their parents giving young teenagers camera phones. When I was in 8-9th grade, there wasn’t as many camera phones and I-phones didn’t exist. I remember the best cell phone was the Motorola Razor which is nothing compared to cell phones today.</p>
<p>I think this is one of those isolated incidents that somehow exploded in the media, and adults make it a bigger problem than it really is.</p>
<p>I don’t personally know of anyone who does it.</p>
<p>lol sexting is such a problem in my town…</p>
<p>Soooo many girls just send some promiscuous pictures of them to a guy or two… and soon the pictures are on every guy’s cell phone in the area.</p>
<p>But hey, I’m not complaining… especially if the girl’s hot (I sound shallow as hell don’t I?)</p>
<p>Sexting Awareness Club- SAC</p>
<p>hilsa that first page was so hot. just to let you know</p>
<p>I’ve never sent explicit pictures over text messages. My ex-boyfriend (who I trusted) and I had (short) videos and many pics. That was it. I think he deleted them after we broke up…</p>
<p>I fail to see why the police are going after these kids. Kids will have sex. Better to educate them instead of giving them a sex offender label</p>
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you “think” he deleted them, huh? lol.</p>
<p>i can guarantee that his closest friends have all seen the pics by now.</p>
<p>^Trust me, I know him pretty well. He’s not like that.</p>
<p>^ plus, she said they weren’t explicit, so there’s not much to show anyway</p>
<p>And a lot of guys in this world are actually pretty decent.</p>
<p>The whole “even if you think you know someone very well, there’s no way to predict what they’ll do when you break up” defense that I hear all the time is absolutely ridiculous. I know the boys whom I date incredibly well, thank you very much, and it is an insult to my intelligence for anyone to imply that I do not necessarily know them well enough to make good choices as to trusting them. My only worry would be the possibility of someone snooping on a boyfriend’s phone or e-mail account and coming across pictures. </p>
<p>But it’s a teenager’s prerogative to do what he or she pleases when it comes to his or her body, including displaying it. </p>
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My attitude toward the law is a pretty rigid interpretation of it, so semantically, these people “should” be persecuted. However, I think that the law should be changed and that “child pornography” rules should be more circumstance-based. </p>
<p>In addition, I have no pity for girls whose pictures get spread. If a girl chooses to put herself out there, she does so with full knowledge of what could happen.</p>