"Sexting".

[Bill Sikes]

"Parents have been warned of a new teenage trend of "sexting", in which children exchange explicit photos of themselves by text".


'Sexting' trend of explicit photo exchange among teenagers, charity warns - Telegraph


"More than a third of secondary school children have been sent messages containing sexual content, a survey showed.

Researchers found youngsters were regularly being sent sex texts or "sexts" - often by their school friends.

The messages contain images of sex acts involving young people but more generally of boys and girls exposing themselves."


The potential here for bullying is quite obvious.

Not so obvious is the potential for people to be prosecuted, imprisoned, and put on the Sex Offenders' Register. This should be done where possible, IMO, in view of the previous concern.

[Kathy Ellen]

Originally Posted by Bill Sikes

"Parents have been warned of a new teenage trend of "sexting", in which children exchange explicit photos of themselves by text".


'Sexting' trend of explicit photo exchange among teenagers, charity warns - Telegraph


"More than a third of secondary school children have been sent messages containing sexual content, a survey showed.

Researchers found youngsters were regularly being sent sex texts or "sexts" - often by their school friends.

The messages contain images of sex acts involving young people but more generally of boys and girls exposing themselves."


The potential here for bullying is quite obvious.

Not so obvious is the potential for people to be prosecuted, imprisoned, and put on the Sex Offenders' Register. This should be done where possible, IMO, in view of the previous concern.

Yes, our young children today are too involved in sex, not just on the phone but also in real life.

Some of our 13 yr. old girls are giving oral sex to the boys on the schoolbus. Now the girls are into rainbow bracelets and lipsticks. A group of girls will wear different lipsticks, give oral sex and leave a ring around the boy's penis... They call it deep throat..

They think that oral sex is not sex

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by Kathy Ellen

[BYes, our young children today are too involved in sex, not just on the phone but also in real life.[ /B]

Apart from the obvious problems, there are others, amongst others as mentioned. Do you thing sanctions should be applied? What can be done?

I do not think it's a good idea to generalise the discussion here, or it'll just turn into a huge mish-mash of postings.

[Peg]

There was a case on the news not long ago where a girl had sent a nude pic over the phone to her boyfriend. They broke up and he showed it to everyone at school. The ridicule got so bad she hung herself.

[G#Gill]

I would think that it would be almost impossible to stop this particular trend. How the hell can you monitor such activities ?

[Kathy Ellen]

Originally Posted by Bill Sikes

Apart from the obvious problems, there are others, amongst others as mentioned. Do you thing sanctions should be applied? What can be done?

I wish I knew Bill. Our kidlets today think that they're infallible and nothing bad will happen to them.

By the time our kids leave the 6th Grade (12 yr. olds) they have been taught, through programs in our schools, the dangers of drugs, sex, texting...etc.

They ignore all warnings when they're on their own. They certainly need more supervision by adults. I think that you have to constantly supervise their activites because they're too young to make good decisions and are exposed to all sorts of nonsense through our media and society.

It seems that the kids who are encouraged to play tons of sports and join clubs fare better than the ones who are left alone to their own devices. The unsupervised child has too much time on their hands, get bored and get in trouble.

[chonsigirl]

It is a difficult thing to monitor. In the middle school the students are not allowed to have cell phones with them, they are supposed to be in their lockers. You know that never happens. We then have to confiscate them and have the parents come and pick them up-when we usually get yelled at by parents for taking them away! The cell phones are disruptive to learning, they text each other and do things mentioned in the OP-the parents never bother looking at their kids phones to read the messages, no parental control anymore. And if for some reasons in the middle of class take the phone, and have a few classes to teach until we can get to the office to turn it in, we are responsible if the phone is stolen for some reason. Puts us in the hot seat all the time.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by Bill Sikes

"Parents have been warned of a new teenage trend of "sexting", in which children exchange explicit photos of themselves by text".


'Sexting' trend of explicit photo exchange among teenagers, charity warns - Telegraph


"More than a third of secondary school children have been sent messages containing sexual content, a survey showed.

Researchers found youngsters were regularly being sent sex texts or "sexts" - often by their school friends.

The messages contain images of sex acts involving young people but more generally of boys and girls exposing themselves."


The potential here for bullying is quite obvious.

Not so obvious is the potential for people to be prosecuted, imprisoned, and put on the Sex Offenders' Register. This should be done where possible, IMO, in view of the previous concern.

I'm in 2 minds over this one Bill.

On one hand, I think all kids like to show off especially in this day and age where sex and naked bodies are all over our tv's.
On the other hand, I feel as you, that something needs to be done. There will be kids doing this as a bit of harmeless fun yet some could go on to become a real porblem to society.
The problem is, the attitude of 'It's just kids'.

[Rapunzel]

Originally Posted by Kathy Ellen

I wish I knew Bill. Our kidlets today think that they're infallible and nothing bad will happen to them.

By the time our kids leave the 6th Grade (12 yr. olds) they have been taught, through programs in our schools, the dangers of drugs, sex, texting...etc.

They ignore all warnings when they're on their own. They certainly need more supervision by adults. I think that you have to constantly supervise their activites because they're too young to make good decisions and are exposed to all sorts of nonsense through our media and society.

It seems that the kids who are encouraged to play tons of sports and join clubs fare better than the ones who are left alone to their own devices. The unsupervised child has too much time on their hands, get bored and get in trouble.

OMG, I SO agree with every comment here! Our kidlets think exactly the same way! Last year a year 4 girl (9 yo) was messing about one evening on the 'puter with her friend, for a laugh she emailed a naked photo of herself to a boy she fancied in class. The boy wasn't interested so for a laugh he printed it off and showed it to all his mates around school. She came to me in hysterics at lunchtime and ended up having a talk with the head and with her parents and the boy did the same. It ended with the whole school being forbidden to even mention the subject!

[fuzzywuzzy]

Originally Posted by Bill Sikes

"Parents have been warned of a new teenage trend of "sexting", in which children exchange explicit photos of themselves by text".


'Sexting' trend of explicit photo exchange among teenagers, charity warns - Telegraph


"More than a third of secondary school children have been sent messages containing sexual content, a survey showed.

Researchers found youngsters were regularly being sent sex texts or "sexts" - often by their school friends.

The messages contain images of sex acts involving young people but more generally of boys and girls exposing themselves."


The potential here for bullying is quite obvious.

Not so obvious is the potential for people to be prosecuted, imprisoned, and put on the Sex Offenders' Register. This should be done where possible, IMO, in view of the previous concern.

Oh bill it's really horrible here . We've already had quite a few investigations concerning younger people . and the effects are devastating on them. One girl I know was found out at school and had feaces smeared all over her locker. she is now home schooled. Others have been victims of hassasment after sending pics to their boyfriends. We also have boys who have been warned charged and now on sex registers.

what people have to remember though is that he girls are liable too. They are producing and distributing 'Child prnography' .....and they don't even relise it.