Fox Deciphers Secret Teen Sexting Code. “Banana” Means “Penis

"Banana," slang for "Penis"? What uncrackable code will the kids think up next?
Via Pukeimmediately: MyFoxAtlanta has published a valuable cheat-sheat for parents wondering what all the acronyms in their child's texts really mean. Is your tween a Fond of Leather ("FOL") Marijuana-smoking ("420") Nude Club-attending ("1174") Penis ("Banana"))? Are you reading your kid's texts right over her shoulder ("POS") as we speak?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/05/21/fox-deciphers-secret-teen-sexting-code-banana-means-penis/

1	8	Oral sex
2	1337	Elite
3	143	I love you
4	182	I hate you
5	459	I love you
6	1174	Nude club
7	420	Marijuana
8	ADR	Address
9	ASL	Age/Sex/Location
10	Banana	Penis
11	CD9 or Code 9	Parents are around
12	DUM	Do You Masturbate?
13	DUSL	Do You Scream Loud?
14	FB	F*** Buddy
15
16	FMLTWIA	F*** Me Like The Whore I Am
17	FOL	Fond of Leather
18	GNOC	Get Naked On Cam
19	GYPO	Get Your Pants Off
20	IAYM	I Am Your Master
21	IF/IB	In the Front or In the Back
22	IIT	Is It Tight?
23	ILF/MD	I Love Female/Male Dominance
24	IMEZRU	I Am Easy, Are You?
25	IWSN	I Want Sex Now
26	J/O	Jerking Off
27	KFY or K4Y	Kiss For You
28	Kitty	Vagina
29	KPC	Keeping Parents Clueless
30	MorF	Male or Female
31	LMIRL	Let's Meet In Real Life
32	MOOS	Member Of The Opposite Sex
33	WYCM	Will You Call Me?
34	MOS	Mom Over Shoulder
35	MPFB	My Personal F*** Buddy
36	NALOPKT	Not A Lot Of People Know That
37	NIFOC	Nude In Front Of The Computer
38	NMU	Not Much, You?
39	P911	Parent Alert
40	PAL	Parents Are Listening
41	PAW	Parents Are Watching
42	PIR	Parent In Room
43	POS	Parent Over Shoulder or Piece Of Sh**
44	PRON	Porn
45	Q2C	Quick To Cum
46	RU/18	Are You Over 18?
47	RUH	Are You Horny?
48	S2R	Send To Receive
49	SorG	Straight or Gay
50	TDTM	Talk Dirty To Me

Teenage sexting laws

Texas attorney general and a state senator have filed legislation aimed at preventing sexting. It typically involves teenagers using cell phones to send sexually explicit messages or images to each other. The new proposed law would make teenage sexting a Class C misdemeanor and teens and parents could be sentenced to a sexting education class. But some are questioning how enforceable that bill would be should it make it into the law books. more...

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Teen sexting: Technological trend leads to tragic consequences

Sexting using cell phones to send explicitly sexual photos  is a growing teenage trend with potentially devastating results. In an effort to get teens to think before they hit that "send" button, the office of Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper has developed an informational program for local schools and parent groups. High school students at the Frankel Jewish Academy in West Bloomfield Township learned in a recent presentation how one split-second click can have lifelong consequences ranging from public humiliation to felony charges and a place on the sex offender registry. more....

 

http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2010/01/27/news/srv0000007438542.txt

Sexting May Place Teens at Legal Risk

One in five teens may be a child pornographer risking life in prison — for the crime of taking and distributing naked pictures of themselves. This statement, though seemingly ridiculous on many levels, is true. The trouble begins with the dicey mix of teenagers’ age-old sexual curiosity, notoriously bad judgment and modern love of electronic sharing — especially of pictures they take with their digital cameras and cellphones. This mix went seriously sour in upstate New York this winter, when a boy misbehaving at a party took an explicit photo of himself with a cellphone and sent it to a girl in his class — high jinks known as “sexting.” She sent it to friends who sent it to friends until it reached 300 children. more...

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/sexting-may-place-teens-at-legal-risk/

Teenage Sexting Statistics

In a recent survey posted by The National Campaign, some alarming statistics about teenage sexting were uncovered. Sexting seems to be the newest craze among teenagers and it is a very dangerous craze. Sexting is when a person takes a flirtatious, nude or semi-nude picture of their self and sends it to others through their cell phone or other means of texting device. more...

Here are Some of the Shocking Sexting Statistics:

The percent of teenagers who have sent or posted nude or semi-nude pictures or video of themselves:

• 20% of teenagers overall
• 22% of teen girls
• 18% of teen boys
• 11% of young teen girls ages 13-16

The percent of teenagers sending or posting sexually suggestive messages:

• 39% of all teenagers
• 37% of teen girls
• 40% of teen boys

http://www.pcsndreams.com/Pages/Sexting_Statistics.html

Teen ‘sexting’: Youthful prank or sex crime?

Tragic consequences

Walters was joined by Internet safety consultant Parry Aftab, who campaigns against the dangers presented to juveniles by modern communications technology. While Walters talked about how inappropriate it is to treat juveniles the same as adult pedophiles, Aftab talked about the very real dangers that sexting can lead to.
Aftab didn’t argue with Walters’ assertion that the law has not caught up with technology. But, she said, “We don’t really have a choice. There’s nothing else out there, and we are relying on prosecutorial discretion, meaning the prosecutors won’t bring these cases. But when kids are out of hand, prosecutors are saying enough is enough.”
Kids may not think there is any harm in sending revealing pictures to boyfriends and girlfriends, but Aftab brought up the case of Jesse Logan, an 18-year-old high school student from Cincinnati who killed herself after her ex-boyfriend sent nude pictures of her to other girls in her school. Jesse’s mother, Cynthia Logan, and Aftab visited TODAY last week to talk about the tragic case. more...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29613192/ns/today-parenting_and_family/t/teen-sexting-youthful-prank-or-sex-crime/

Video: ‘Sexting’ leads teen to suicide

Police investigate teen sexting case

Boy got angry when girl broke up with him

CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) - Cedar Park Police are investigating a juvenile sexting case involving students at Cedar Park High School. Police said two dating teens sent nude pictures to each other during the course of their relationship. But when they broke up, the boy got upset and sent nude photos of his ex-girlfriend to the entire football team. more...

 

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/police-investigate-teen-sexting-case

 

 

'Sexting' lands teen on sex offender list

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

When Vanessa Hudgens' naked photos hit the Internet, the "High School Musical" star quickly apologized. But sending nude or seminude pictures, a phenomenon known as sexting, is a fast-growing trend among teens.
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy, a private nonprofit group whose mission is to protect children, and CosmoGirl.com, surveyed nearly 1,300 teens about sex and technology. The result: 1 in 5 teens say they've sexted even though the majority know it could be a crime. more...

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-07/justice/sexting.busts_1_phillip-alpert-offender-list-offender-registry?_s=PM:CRIME


Phillip Alpert is a registered sex offender as a result of
sending a nude photograph of his 16-year-old girlfriend.



Sexting’ bullying cited in teen’s suicide

13-year-old Hope Witsell hanged herself after topless photos circulated

Hope Witsell was just beginning the journey from child to teen. The middle-school student had a tight-knit group of friends, the requisite poster of “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson and big plans to become a landscaper when she grew up.  But one impetuous move robbed Hope of her childhood, and eventually, her life. The 13-year-old Florida girl sent a topless photo of herself to a boy in hope of gaining his attention. Instead, she got the attention of her school, as well as the high school nearby. more...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34236377/ns/today-today_people/t/sexting-bullying-cited-teens-suicide 

 

 

 

Generation Sextig

Generation sexting: What teenage girls really get up to on the internet should chill every parent

Like a real porn star, Becky is heavily made up and lying naked on the bed as the camera flashes. She could be just another glamorous model as she poses provocatively with practised moves. But she isn't. Shockingly, Becky is just 17 and still at school. She's filming herself in a friend's bedroom in a large, detached house in leafy suburbia as her schoolfriends party downstairs. more...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1162777/Generation-sexting-What-teenage-girls-really-internet-chill-parent.html

Sexting-related bullying cited in Hillsborough teen's suicide

RUSKIN — At the end of the school year at Beth Shields Middle School, the taunting became so bad that Hope Witsell's friends surrounded her between classes. They escorted her down hallways like human shields, fending off insults such as "whore" and "slut." A few days before, Hope had forwarded a nude photo of herself to a boy she liked — a practice widely known as "sexting." The image found its way to other students, who forwarded it to their friends. Soon the nude photo was circulating through cell phones at Shields Middle and Lennard High School, according to multiple students at both schools. "Tons of people talk about me behind my back and I hate it because they call me a whore!" Hope wrote in her journal. "And I can't be a whore i'm too inexperienced. more...

http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1054895.ece

“I take 1 step forward & two steps back,” Hope Witsell wrote on her mirror: Her death in September is the second known sexting-related suicide in the country. “Hope certainly did not let on that something was wrong,” her father, Charlie Witsell, said. Hope’s mother, Donna, is in the reflect

New bill targets teen sexting and syberbullying

From Facebook to text messages, America's youth are constantly connected. One State Senator says that this is why cyber-bullying and sexting are on the rise.

Senator Kemp Hannon adds that teenagers don't realize their actions can result in criminal records and sometimes requisition to register as a sex offender.

In response, Hannon sponsored the "Cyber-Crime Youth Rescue Act", which has just been sent to the Assembly. more...

http://www.wicz.com/news2005/viewarticle.asp?a=19114

Teen Sexting Can Lead to Unintended Consequences

Sexting – or the sending and posting of sexually explicit or suggestive messages and photos via digital or electronic devices – is not only against the law in many jurisdictions, it can lead to devastating and long-term unintended consequences for the victims and their families.

“Sex and Tech,” the results of a survey of teens and young adults commissioned by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com, states that “sending or posting nude or semi-nude photos and videos starts at a young age and becomes even more frequent as teens become young adults.” more....

http://www.teendrugabuse.org/for-teens/teen-sexting-can-lead-to-unintended-consequences/

Sexting" Shockingly Common Among Teens

CBS/ AP)  While it may be shocking, the practice of "sexting" - sending nude pictures via text message - is not unusual, especially for high schoolers around the country.

This week, three teenage girls who allegedly sent nude or semi-nude cell phone pictures of themselves, and three male classmates in a western Pennsylvania high school who received them, are charged with child pornography. more...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/15/national/main4723161.shtml

Lawmakers Propose Teen 'Sexting' Law .

 
New York state lawmakers are advancing a bill that would create an "educational reform program" for teenagers who get in trouble for creating and sharing pornographic images of minors.
The program, proposed by Assembly Democrats, is intended to give prosecutors and judges a more lenient option for dealing with teenagers accused of "sexting," using their cellphones, email or social-networking sites to distribute naked and sexually explicit pictures of themselves or classmates. more...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304474804576367960734408624.html

New York state lawmakers are advancing a bill that would create an "educational reform program" for teenagers who get in trouble for creating and sharing pornographic images of minors.



Measure may cut sting of 'sexting' penalty

Making crime a misdemeanor would keep kids off offender list

State laws targeting cold-blooded traffickers in child pornography could land hot-blooded teenagers behind bars or on sex offender lists for life, a state senator warned Monday as he introduced legislation designed to soften the penalties for the phenomenon known as "sexting." more...

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7417329.html#ixzz1T7eXAoat

Sexting Teens

So, what is "sexting"? Well, believe it or not, this is a new rage where teens are sharing sexually risqué messages and/or nude pictures of themselves or others via text or on-line. While many teens openly admit that they know it's wrong to post these sexual photos, they feel the odds of getting caught are so low that they are willing to run the risk.  more...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/teen-angst/201103/sexting-teens