Sexting Argumentative Essay

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In Minneapolis, a twelve-year-old girl had a crush on a boy who was in the same grade and school as her. The seventh grader, Michaela Snyder, had an electronic device that many teenagers have today: a cell phone. She would do anything to make her crush happy. One day, he asked for some pictures: he wanted to see her body. At first, Michaela said no, but her crush threatened to leave her if she does not provide any pictures. Her parents had thought that they had provided enough conversation concerning sexting, but they were wrong. In search of help, Micheala went to her seventh-grade friends, but they normalized it since they have all done it too. Michaela eventually sent a picture of herself in just her underwear. She felt bad. Her crush did not stop with that picture: he increasingly asked for more naked pictures. Fortunately, she denied sending more nude pictures. Her parents eventually found out by checking her phone and consequently spoke to the parents of Michaela’s crush. Michaela regrets the choice that she made when she sent those pictures of herself. Unfortunately, many teenagers find themselves in as Michaela did: sext. According to Karen Peterson, sexting is “the …show more content…

Although they do not blatantly endorse teenage sexting, their content normalizes sex out of marriage. Teenage sexual innuendos are eminent in today’s culture. According to Peterson, the popular media of America has cultivated a culture that has routinely objectified and sexualized the body of women, even a teenage girl. For instance, Miley Cyrus, at the age of fifteen, posed semi-nude for a Vanity Fair photo spread in 2006. Girls of this culture may think that if Miley could pose like that in front of the world audience, it should be fine if they sext a picture to a crush. However, in spite of the glamorization of sexual immorality by the media, the consequences of sexting remain

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