Teen girls' cell-phone invitations bare all

[Wretched Excess]

the moral implications aside, this is insanely dangerous.  did anyone else know that this
sort of thing was happening?

Teen girls' cell-phone invitations bare all

The 17-year-old was taking a nap when his cell phone buzzed. A video message had just arrived.

A girl's naked body flashed on the screen, her fingers fondling herself.

The surprised boy snapped shut his phone. Seconds later, it buzzed again.

"Am I better than your girlfriend?" a familiar voice asked. The boy immediately hung up.

Experts and high-school students both say that teens -- particularly girls -- are increasingly using naked pictures, raunchy messages and promises of no-strings-attached sex to get attention or nab a boy.

In this case, the Groveport Madison High School boy says, a classmate has littered his cell phone with sexually graphic messages, offering everything from oral to anal sex, for months.

"I used to go out with her during the summer and I just upped and stopped talking to her," said the teen, who didn't want his name printed because he feared punishment from his parents and retribution from the girl and her family. "She's trying to get back together."

Many teenage girls have learned that the way to get male attention is to push the envelope with photos, said Candice Kelsey, author of Generation MySpace: Helping Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence.

"This happens a lot," said Kelsey, who teaches at a private high school in Santa Monica, Calif. "It crosses every racial socioeconomic group. Christian kids are doing it. Jewish kids are doing it."

High-school administrators and police throughout central Ohio report similar stories about the consequences of this kind of display: Photos sent as part of a private conversation quickly spread.

Sometimes, boys share nude pictures of their ex-girlfriends after relationships sour. Unsolicited photos can make the rounds more quickly.

For example, a Westerville South High School teen sent girls a cell-phone video of himself touching his penis, hoping they would respond with an equally explicit display. One girl sent a video of her own, but the rest forwarded the boy's message. At least 30 other students received a copy.

Because the exchanges often take place on cell phones or through private pages on social networking Web sites such as MySpace, police or school administrators frequently don't learn about them.

But they are everywhere, said Reynoldsburg police detective Brian Marvin, who also is a member of the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force of Central Ohio.

"I've seen everything from your basic striptease to sexual acts being performed" online, he said. "You name it, they will do it at their home under this perceived anonymity."

While the videos and pictures start out as an intimate exchange between two people, they can become part of a sexual predator's collection once they are posted on the Web, Marvin said.

Under Ohio law, adults who send pornographic material to someone younger than 18 can be charged with disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, a misdemeanor. And those who seek sex with a minor through telecommunications can be charged with importuning, a felony.

Columbus police detective Lolita Perryman has gotten calls from parents whose teens sent inappropriate pictures that are now being spread around. But she said she has never charged anyone for sending the material.

Posing, posting and sending homemade explicit pictures is classic narcissistic behavior, said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever Before.

"Adolescents are not known for thinking things through -- that's a generational constant," she said. "Now, with the technology that is out there, instead of taking a picture and passing it around the classroom, it's online, which is a whole different ball game. (Teens) don't see it that way."

Twenge helped lead a study last year that found narcissism at an all-time high among today's young people. That means they place a greater emphasis on image and fame, she said.

"They don't see anything wrong with it," said Mark Raiff, principal at Olentangy Liberty High School, who has dealt with these situations. "It makes me speechless."

Jerome Ray, 18, a senior at Westerville Central High School, said girls often send him text messages laced with sexual innuendo. Once, he even received a naked photo from a classmate when he was sitting next to his girlfriend.

"A lot more girls are aggressive," Ray said. "Some girls are crazy, and they are putting themselves out there."

But the photo and the text messages are not for him. Ray said he's devoted to his girlfriend.

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[Chris_]

More unintended consequences of moral relativeism run amok in our public education system.....

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[Rebel Yell]

That reminds me, I need to check my messages.  TiT mode.

[Chris_]

Breaking news: Women use sex to get what they want.  Story at 11.   

[Airwolf]

This is one reason why my kid doesn't have a cell phone.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Breaking news: Women use sex to get what they want.  Story at 11.   

DAMMIT!

I tired of being treated like just a slab of meat!

[Chris_]

Breaking news: Women use sex to get what they want.  Story at 11.   

DAMMIT!

I tired of being treated like just a slab of meat!

Life is hard.

[mondonico]

Of course, the libs' answer to this will be stiffer regulation of the cell phone industry, which will raise everyone's prices, and do nothing.   

[Chris_]

Breaking news: Women use sex to get what they want.  Story at 11.   

"and the men who fall for it every damn time" ... poor little pecker heads. 

[TheSarge]

 


As if I didn't have enough to worry about with my three daughters.


 

[JohnnyReb]

As if I didn't have enough to worry about with my three daughters.


 

May the good lord bless you and keep you. May he make his light shine upon you and give you a "BIG DAMN STICK" to beat some respect into the boys. .....or, if that don't work, a dump truck load of saltpeter ( I believe going to the 'root' of the problem is probably best).

[NHSparky]

Columbus police detective Lolita Perryman

Am I the only one who noticed that?

[Splashdown]

As if I didn't have enough to worry about with my three daughters.


 

May the good lord bless you and keep you. May he make his light shine upon you and give you a "BIG DAMN STICK" to beat some respect into the boys. .....or, if that don't work, a dump truck load of saltpeter ( I believe going to the 'root' of the problem is probably best).

I'm the father of two daughters. Gonna be a loooooooooooooong adolescence.

[Flame]

As if I didn't have enough to worry about with my three daughters.


 

May the good lord bless you and keep you. May he make his light shine upon you and give you a "BIG DAMN STICK" to beat some respect into the boys. .....or, if that don't work, a dump truck load of saltpeter ( I believe going to the 'root' of the problem is probably best).

Did you guys notice it was a GIRL sending nekkid pics of HERSELF to a BOY??   The girl is the one who needs her ass kicked!!

With that being said, my 15 yr old and my almost 13 yr old both have cells...and they both know I don't have a problem picking up the phone and scrolling through their messages, etc.  I ask quite regularly who they are texting, etc, and have been know to answer for them if they are unavailable =).
We talk about stuff that is appropriate and inappropriate all the time.

[DixieBelle]

*says silent prayer thanking God she has a boy*

Sadly, that's small comfort these days. Kids are just wild. And yes, I blame libtards!!! Grrrrrrr!

[Wretched Excess]

*resisting the urge to go off on one of my "this is a sign of the end of the world" rants*