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In case you haven’t heard of it before, “Sexting” is the term used for sending risqué photos of yourself electronically, usually via text message. And apparently it has become all the rage with teens now-a-days. Besides some of the obvious problems associated with this, those teens can also be sent to jail and officially labeled as sex offenders for doing it.

The law is clear

The law is pretty clear. Child pornography is a crime. So take a photo of someone under 18, where he or she is nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit, and if you are the one who either produced, distributed, or possess that photo…guess what? You are breaking the law. Even if you are only 14, and it was a photo you took of yourself to send to that cute guy you met online that you want to go out with. The laws are pretty darn cut and dried and don’t distinguish between “traditional” child porn trafficking and sexting. So, do it and you can be prosecuted on a state or federal felony level, and can even lead to having to be labeled as a sex offender.

The internet pornography industry is massive, of that there is no doubt, and the USA hosts 89% (244,661,900) of them. This is a staggering figure, and one that first points towards a degrading society, and then to what impact this is having on the children of today. Statistics show that the average age that a child first sees pornography on the internet is 11, and that within the 8-16 age bracket 90% of children have viewed porn online. So is it really surprising that children are putting naked photos of them selves online? Not really.