Today, I picked up my daughter early from school for a Dentist appointment. While we were sitting in the lobby waiting to be taken back, they had Fox News on. One of the stories that they covered was about the new (ok, not that new, but still) fad known as "Sexting," a play on Texting, but instead of just sending messages back and forth, apparently some kids thing it's cool to take nude or nearly nude pictures of themselves and picture message them to boyfriends or girlfriends or whatever, I guess thinking at the time that this is a private thing to do, but of course, more often than not, it gets sent on to lots and lots of people. Some idiots... errr... experts are trying to say that it's just an innocent thing that the kids are doing, like spin the bottle or "doctor" (neither of which are as innocent as people like to remember them). Obviously though, this goes far beyond even those things.
Anyway, back to the news story, they had a young man on there whose 16 year old Girlfriend had sent him a nude photo of herself when he was 17, then after he turned 18 he sent it to a bunch of people (don't know if they broke up, or what happened) and was arrested for proliferating child porn, and has been labeled a sex offender. Now he is trying to get that label removed because it really messes him up for getting a job and things like that. I'm thinking that, yeah, maybe making him a sex offender doesn't quite fit, but clearly something has to be done. The problem that I have with the story is that they were putting it forth as if he was an innocent victim. Fact of the matter is that, he was in no way innocent at all, and he should have been punished.
This sexting thing is a serious matter, it's not just some funny thing that the kids are doing, it's not harmless, and it's not innocent.
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