Teens Aren't The Rampant Sexting Maniacs We Thought - Polidicks

[URL]http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/12/05/143142420/teens-arent-the-rampant-sexting-maniacs-we-thought?ft=1&f=1019[/URL] [QUOTE]Teens sharing totally inappropriate naked photos on their phones: Sexting sounded so plausible, it just had to be true. But now it turns out that's the vast majority of teenagers aren't sexting at all. [B]Just 1 percent of teens say they've created sexually explicit images and shared them[/B], according to a new survey of 1,560 teenagers by the [URL="http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/"]Crimes Against Children Research Center[/URL] at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. About 2.5 percent of teens said they'd appeared in or created nude or nearly nude photos or videos. That's a far cry from the "22 percent of all teens are sexting" [URL="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/advice-for-parents/talking-about-sexting"]data[/URL] that's been tossed around in the past few years. More teenagers are getting sexy images on their phones, but even then those numbers are modest, so to speak. About 7 percent said they had gotten a nude or nearly nude image, and 6 percent said they'd gotten a sexually explicit image, which included naked breasts, genitalia, or buttocks. In the majority of cases, the images were sent as "romance as part of a relationship." When teenagers get sexual images, the majority say they aren't passing the images along. And 21 percent said they were embarrassed, upset, or afraid after making the image, and 25 percent of recipients said so. Add that all up and just about 10 percent of the middle schoolers and high schoolers surveyed had somehow been involved sexting in the past year. In many cases the images were "sexy" but not sexually explicit. "Only a low percentage of young people are appearing in or creating images that could be considered illegal child pornography," the researchers [URL="http://aap.org/advocacy/releases/dec511studies.htm"]wrote[/URL] in the journal [I]Pediatrics[/I]. "Moreover, few of these images were being forwarded or posted." The researchers say their findings are more accurate than earlier studies because they asked very specific questions about what children were sending and seeing, where earlier surveys merely asked about "sexting". Still, organizations that monitor teen use of media say parents should talk with their children about the privacy risks of sharing explicit photos "Where do you draw your digital line?" asks the [URL="http://www.thatsnotcool.com/"]That's Not Cool[/URL] site, intended for teenagers. Sounds like most teens draw the line at a tasteful yet alluring photo that would pass muster with Mom and Dad. [/QUOTE] Not that it matters whether or not teens feel the need to flash the parts of their anatomy most often covered with clothing...

This is just kids who admitted to it

Well no fucking shit. 80% of it was sensationalism.

I wonder if they have concrete numbers from something other than a survey group. This isn't exactly the type of thing most people I know would be honest about, considering the ridiculous overreaction to it by the adult population.

angry old people: "no fun allowed"

It's likely a case of response bias. Just because they answered, doesn't mean they were truthful. In my old middle school there were 3 very well known cases of this in one year.

Lemme guess, the old people who are blaming the teens for this are worse than the teens they're blaming?

We are the 99%

[QUOTE=TehWhale;33649799]This is just kids who admitted to it[/QUOTE] Who fucking admits to sexting?

I AM THE 99%

i am the 1%

[QUOTE=Arachnidus;33649816]I wonder if they have concrete numbers from something other than a survey group. This isn't exactly the type of thing most people I know would be honest about, considering the ridiculous overreaction to it by the adult population.[/QUOTE] you're not going to get concrete numbers ever the 22% figure was definitely bullshit and this is probably biased as well.

small sample size, and it's done at a university, not a high school.

yeah me and my girl did this all the time, pretty sure people are just lying

I've done this in relationships. Which the article says is most of the sexting. It makes sense really, probably only 1% of teens are actual whores who send naked pictures to people without dating them.

[QUOTE=Bryanrocks0;33650488]It makes sense really, probably only 1% of teens are actual whores who send naked pictures to people without dating them.[/QUOTE] :C

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33649914]Who fucking admits to sexting?[/QUOTE]

I'm calling bullshit on this. I mean, who admits to doing this? It like trying to find the amount of people who have a certain, really weird fetish. No one wants to admit to it openly.

pfft my parents sext more than most kids I know...don't ask how I found out...oh god. :tinfoil:

[QUOTE=nemmises5;33650565]pfft my parents sext more than most kids I know...don't ask how I found out...oh god. :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] how :v:

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;33650534]:C[/QUOTE] You and Ashley don't count, Johnny.

Most kids, at least here in Seattle, don't sext. Usually it's just the sluts/manwhores that do it.

[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;33649864]It's likely a case of response bias. Just because they answered, doesn't mean they were truthful. In my old middle school there were 3 very well known cases of this in one year.[/QUOTE] that sounds about right if there are 300 or more people in that school

Yes, we all know, it's just another teen fad made up by bored local news.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33649914]Who fucking admits to sexting?[/QUOTE] If you're sending shots of your dong to people do you really care that much to lie on an anonymous survey?

Technically the title is right: we're much, much worse.

sexting is fucking stupid to begin with its just a good way to get your rights taken away

[QUOTE=Ermac20;33651549]sexting is fucking stupid to begin with its just a good way to get your rights taken away[/QUOTE] what???

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;33651936]what???[/QUOTE] Under 18. Take nude pics. Automatic child pornography distribution (you are now a sex offender).

[QUOTE=Gammashack;33652034]Under 18. Take nude pics. Automatic child pornography distribution (you are now a sex offender).[/QUOTE] ssshh nobody will know