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...
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