What is sexting?
Sexting is, as Wikipedia puts it, a "portmanteau of sex and texting." Or if you like, it is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically mainly from one cellphone to another.
The Pew Research Centre carried out a study in September involving 800 teens.
It found that 30% of 17-year-olds who have phones have received sexting photos or messages. Eight per cent say they sent "sexting" images.
There have been multiple other studies in various countries and all of them report that at least 20% of teens have sent inapropriate photos via their cellphones. The numbers are usually higher for the next age group up, 18-25.
This is a felony but who is really going to put 20% of americas youth behind bars? So sexting will continue.
