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Jun 14, 2011New York Times
What with Facebook friends, Twitter followers and Skype video chats, it is now all too easy to flirt with strangers and engage in sexual fantasy without (technically) breaking a marriage vow. Digital dalliance has entered the mainstream.
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Jun 8, 2011Associated Press
There are, though, recent numbers on the prevalence of sexting among adults. In a May 2010 survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 15 percent of adults said they had received "a sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude photo or vide...
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Mar 26, 2011New York Times
Around the country, law enforcement officials and educators are struggling with how to confront minors who “sext,” an imprecise term that refers to sending sexual photos, videos or texts from one cellphone to another.
But adults face a ...
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Mar 16, 2010Wall Street Journal | Digits
Is it cyberbullying if kids post mean comments and then say they were “just joking”? Is it wrong for a boy to pressure his girlfriend to send racy text messages? For teenagers, these questions don’t necessarily have clear answers.
MTV i...
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Dec 27, 2009New York Times
A 16-year-old honors student took a nude photo of herself, used her cellphone to send it to a friend and, bingo, for the last two weeks the photo has made the rounds of the three-year-old school with 1,300 students. Plainfield police seized some s...
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Dec 17, 2009NPR's Morning Edition
Some recent numbers released by the Census Bureau show that Americans sent more than twice as many texts in December 2008 than they did in December 2007. Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center's Internet and Americ...
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Dec 15, 2009Washington Post
About 1 in 7 American teens with cellphones say they have received nude or nearly nude photos by text message, according to a new survey on the phenomenon known as "sexting."
Helping to define the little-understood trend in teen life, t...
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Dec 15, 2009CNN
Melissa Long: Do you see a different kind of sexting that's going on when you look at the different age groups?
Amanda Lenhart: Well, certainly we see much more of this going on with the older teens. And part of that's because older tee...
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Dec 15, 2009CNN
Teenage sexting usually is done as part of a relationship or would-be relationship between teens, the Pew focus groups found.
Some teens send sexts only to people with whom they are in a relationship; but those messages often are forwar...
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Dec 15, 2009NPR
Fifteen percent of teenagers who have cell phones say they are involved in sexting, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. The survey found that nearly 1 in 6 young people aged 12 to 17 has receiv...
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