Trading Nude Photos Via Mobile Phone Now Part of Teen Dating, Experts Say

Fox News ^ | 14 April 2008 | AP

[batter]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves.

The instant text, picture and video messages have become part of some teens' courtship behavior, police and school officials said.

The messages often spread quickly and sometimes find their way to public Web sites.

"I've seen everything from your basic striptease to sexual acts being performed," said Reynoldsburg police Detective Brian Marvin, a member of the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force of Central Ohio. "You name it, they will do it at their home under this perceived anonymity."

Westerville Central High School senior Jerome Ray said he's received such unsolicited messages, including one from a classmate while he was sitting with his girlfriend.

"A lot more girls are aggressive," said Ray, 18. "Some girls are crazy and they are putting themselves out there."

[batter]

We've had the same problem here in Utah. A Jr. High in Farmington had a bunch of kids busted for the same stuff. It would be a good idea to block picture and video messaging from you child's phone.

The end quote of the article sums it up well - "They don't see anything wrong with it," he said. "It leaves me speechless."

[Always Right]

Hard core porn is becoming way too common and nearly acceptable behavior. You’ve come a long ways baby.

[batter]

Not only blocking the image stuff, put it would also be helpful if parents would act as parents (instead of being 'best friends') and talk to their kids about appropriate behavior (and consequences).

Seems a lot of kids just have no moral compass whatsoever.

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Isnt this child pornography?

[ClearCase_guy]

We hear about cases in which a kid in Kindergarten slaps a classmate's butt and is branded a sex offender (this just happened). I'm wondering when some Junior High kids will start serving time in prison for distribution of child pornography.

I don't like zero tolerance stupidity, but I fail to see how pictures of naked students can NOT be a legal violation.

[basil]

We are in the end times-—that’s all I can think of to explain something like this.

[batter]

Since it is perpetrated by minors, prosecution depends on the jurisdiction. Posting the images on the web (or sending them to adults), however, would, probably, elevate the charges as your are then distributing the images to adults.

[SouthTexas]

And we had to go to National Geographic for pics.

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[ClearCase_guy]

Since it is perpetrated by minors, prosecution depends on the jurisdiction. Posting the images on the web (or sending them to adults), however, would, probably, elevate the charges as your are then distributing the images to adults.

As far as the enforcement of the law is concerned, you may be right. But I have a real problem with laws (any laws) which are applied to "some folks" while others are given a pass. If the statutes on child pornography specifically say that distribution to kids is A-OK, then fine. But I suspect that the statutes do not contain any age demarcation at which child pornography is OK.

One law for all the people. No special classes.

[BikerJoe]

Isnt this child pornography?

Interesting question, isn't it.

Is it child pornography if the child in question takes the picture BY THEMSELVES, with no coercion, and then sends the picture UNSOLICITED to others?????

I'm against kiddie porn as much as the next guy, but if a 16 going on 25 Britney Spears wannabe starts sending pictures of her private parts to a bunch of hormone-soaked teenage boys, then no, I don't think the boys should be prosecuted for kiddie porn, regardless of what some idiotic overly-broad law says. The girl, OTOH, should be subject to whatever corporal punishment she DOESN'T find "exciting".

[Hacklehead]

We have Hollywood and feminism to thank for the destruction of our society.

[wintertime]

Westerville Central High School

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This is a very upscale area. Surely, their schools would be considered a “good” schools.

Isn't it amazing how almost all of these school outrage stories are from schools that would be considered “good”....BUT...we all know that this in **not** happening in the “good” schools of the government school defenders on this message board. ( sarc)

[Thrownatbirth]

We had the Polaroid Swinger and a 8-cent first-class postage.

[batter]

Also, I think here in Utah, the teens were charged with misdemeanors for lewdness (BUT, I don’t think any of the pictures were posted on the web or sent to an adult).

[BikerJoe]

Isnt this child pornography?

Interesting question, isn't it.

Is it child pornography if the child in question takes the picture BY THEMSELVES, with no coercion, and then sends the picture UNSOLICITED to others?????

I'm against kiddie porn as much as the next guy, but if a 16 going on 25 Britney Spears wannabe starts sending pictures of her private parts to a bunch of hormone-soaked teenage boys, then no, I don't think the boys should be prosecuted for kiddie porn, regardless of what some idiotic overly-broad law says. The girl, OTOH, should be subject to whatever corporal punishment she DOESN'T find "exciting".

[devane617]

Kids don’t seem to care that many copies of these pics are kept in a variety of places. When they get to be adults, stuff like this will bite them.

[Always Right]

We are in the end times-—that’s all I can think of to explain something like this.

Internet has made access to this kind of stuff just so easy. It is hard to believe just how many girls are willing to put themselves on tape doing this kind of stuff.

[BenLurkin]

This is the post-Clinton generation. Their formative years were spent hearing about how sexual escapades are perfectly “normal”

[Thrownatbirth]

And we had to go to National Geographic for pics

We had the Polaroid Swinger. That made for some interesting mail calls.