Sexting Informative Essay

Sexting

In 2015, Raychelle Cassada Lohmann is a school counselor and coauthor of “The Bullying Workbook for Teens and described to us what is sexting. Lohmann says that sexting is sending, receiving and forwarding sexual pictures through text message or email. Lohmann says that the word “Sext” had been around since 2005. In her article, it says that before internet was established there were historical drawings sexually. Resent researchers have done studies and tested 606 students from ages 14-18 and 20% has said they have sent a nude of themselves. Some of the students have said they haven’t thought of the illegal consequences of sending the picture. And some of us may ask why the teens are doing this. Some say that it’s all out of love to their boyfriend or girlfriend, some say it’s under peer pressure and others are doing it as well and while other say that they weren’t thinking before they did it.

Katie Abbondanza, who is a senior in high school, wrote the article about “Sexting Among Teens Can Be Harmful” in a paper called Girls’ Life. She states that sexting is becoming more common in the world now and in retaliation, peer pressure is involved.

Abbondanza states that studies show that 60% has sent a nudity picture and 30% has been asked to send one to someone. She tells us a story about a girl who was a sophomore in high school by the name of Allyson Pereia. She was one of the girls who had sent her boyfriend revealing a picture. The couple had broken up and he had sent out the picture to an enormous amount of people. Allyson says she was very ashamed that she had been exposed because that really isn’t the person she is and wants people to start to think she has become. She was bullied daily from the picture. She attempted suicide during that tragic time of her life, and it’s sad to say that she isn’t the only one had gone through it. Another article that was written by Katie Abbondanza called “Sexting Gets Even More Serious”. Abbondanza had written this one about another young girl named Amanda Todd. Amanda says in her own words She had been on a chatting site with a couple of people who had asked her to flash her chest and thinking nothing of it she had done it. Not knowing that it was a hacker online; they snapped a picture of her and black mailed her consistently. The hacker sent out the picture to her friends, she was bullied and harassed, and had changed schools. She had done things like cutting herself, drinking and etc., and she eventually taken away her own life. And not to mention a few months earlier, a teenager from Canada had commit suicide because of these types of problems going on.
Libby Quaid, an educated writer for the Associated Press, wrote “Sexting Puts Teenagers and Young Adults At Risk” in 2011.

When kids in high send nude pictures, they often think nothing of it, but what they don’t know is that there are many consequences. She says that some states are becoming stricter on the law of child pornography. Many parents all over the world are more worried and concerned that the pictures are being viral and being seen almost everywhere by everyone. Not only are they worried about that; their biggest concern is the fact that bullying will take place and might led up to suicide. Sammy, a 16 year old boy from the San Francisco Bay area, says that sharing pictures in your cell phones and sexting online in video chats are more commonly being done and is normal in the younger

generation.
Mathais H. Heck Jr., a prosecuting attorney in Montgomery County, Ohio, had written “Sexting and Charging Juveniles- Balancing the Law and Bad Choices” in 2015. She tells us that some of the teenagers aren’t really aware of the fact that sexting is leading to child pornography and they could be charged and end up in jail. And some may argue that charging them with that as a felony is in some way kind of harsh. Katelyn, a young 15 girl who was in a relationship was asked to send a photo to her boyfriend, sent it because she was love with him. Like any other couple they had broken up and 3 weeks later she had found out that Dylon, her 16 year old ex-boyfriend, had set out her picture. She was taunted and teased, her grades dropped and she didn’t want to attended school anymore and her parents were really angry and upset about it as well. In another situation, a young teenage girl had asked her boyfriend to take her picture while performing oral sex. Unlike other guys he didn’t show nor send to others. He was caught with his phone at school, the adults went through his phone and found the picture. They contacted his parents, and while at the police station his parents wanted to know was the girlfriend going to be charged because it was sent from her cell phone.
Nancy Willard, in 2013 wrote “Sexting Harms Boys as Well as Girls”. She says that guys that pursue themselves in sexting while most likely put themselves at risk for being a sex offender for receiving or sending photos of a minor. Majority of the boys who receive a nude will most likely send it to a friend or show a friend, and they will be like anyone else and send it to people in their phone. Guys won’t be as depressed as girls would be about the picture nor will they be bullied or harassed. While girls would probably commit suicide, guys would be charged for a felony for pictures of young girls. Honestly, most people don’t’ know and aren’t aware of the fact that more and more have seen their nudes and some go viral. This has been talked about many times and yet teenagers and young adults still manage to do it. Studies claim that kids ages 12-17 who do have a phone and know how to use them; also ingage in sexting as well.