Seriousness about 'sexting'

[Darla Shine]

Please talk to your teens. These boys were charged with pornography, child pornography after teenage girls emailed nude photos of themselves to male classmates.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28679588/

[shoppingmamma]

Unbelievable!!!! This is one of the many things I worry about with having almost 3 boys now! David is in middle school - I know this stuff is not far off. I disagree with the boys being punished if they did not show them around or post them - by just being SENT the pictures they did nothing wrong - they can't control what the girls send them!!!

I just want to move away from it all lately - when I was the age of the girls in this article we were NOT taking naked pics of ourselves - it was like a huge deal to send a note to a boy you liked. You know - do you like so and so - check yes or no... LOL My friends and I went to dinner last night and we were talking about how glad we are we didn't go to high school now - this whole texting, facebook stuff is so out of control!!!

[mommy of twins]

Unbelievable.....I think young girls (and guys) are just "sexed" to death. Nothing is sacred anymore- not their bodies, minds, nothing. It's just sad to me that girls feel they have to send nude pics of themselves to get attention. There's a great book called Strong Father's, Strong Daughter's. It talks about how this "sexing" of children must stop. Todd and I were so convicted after reading it, we turned our cable off.

[Valerie]

I know that my boys won't be angels, but I PRAY that they have sensible heads on their shoulders as they get older. Jill, I think you're right, these boys can't control what the girls send them, but I didn't read in the story that the boys took the phones to someone in authority and said, "Hey look what these girls are sending me." They probably were like, "Whoo hoo! Tatas!"

I agree that these kids are being overexposed to sex. I lead the youth group at our church (7th grade and up). It's insane. My husband (in addition to being our pastor, of course) is a high school teacher. He's in kind of a backwoods rural area that is MUCH calmer than the other school systems around, but still! The stories he tells.... They'll make you sick, make you mad, and make you just so sad.

I don't know what to do to keep my boys away from it, other than turn Amish. What do we do, girls?

[Jia]

I agree about kids being over sexed. Heck, it wasn't too long ago I was in High School (ten years) and even then we were over sexed!! But it's nothing like today. Nothing!

In our old Church (back when we lived with Matt's parents) the kids go to a youth class while the adults gather together (men and women separately) and the Bishop had us all meet together one Sunday because he felt he needed to talk to us because several of the kids had come to him and confessed that they had been rufied at a party, at their friends house or even at SCHOOL! One girl apparently had been rufied in the lunchroom and the kid followed her and when she passed out, he acted like he was taking her to the nurse when actually he took her into a bathroom and raped her.

I taught the 12-14 year olds in Sunday school and you could tell which kids were being over sexed in high school and which ones were handling things a little better. It makes me so sad.

[momma of 6]

This is a big problem out my way. In fact in a few towns over from us a prosectuor is determining what charges to bring against a 12 yr old girl and 13 yr old boy for sending each other nude photos of themselves. It is crazy I worry cause I have a 16 yr old boy and a 9 yr old boy and the older one has a cell phone we have sat him down and talked very seriously about this with him but it still scares the dikins out of me. My girl is 3 yrs old and I really worry for her too.

[Darla Shine]

Why though should a prosecutor get involved. If these kids are sending nude photos out of themselves they parents should be told and they should be punished, maybe there should be a set fine for this behavior but to ruin a young person's future for this is just insane.