Sexting As A Teenage Moral Panic

Utilizing social media has been shown to enhance communication, social interaction, and sharpen technical skills of teenagers. Benefits to teens of social media allow them to socialize with friends, make new friend, and even help each other on group projects or homework. Studies indicate that over 20% of teenagers log onto social media sites over 10 times in one day. A con in social media is that its has caused cyberbullying and online hate. Studies have shown that online harassment is no more common than offline harassment. Another con in social media is that sexting has increased 20% in teens. These teens have indicated that they have posted nude or semi nude photos of themselves. Teens do not realize the risk

In the scene from the boys’ viewpoint, I used posture and movement to show the relaxed and bored behaviour by standing with my shoulders slumped, hunched over back as I boringly stared at my phone whilst I noisily chewed gum. Aastha was positioned in the centre middle as a leader whereas I, Leah and Ceri stood around as her followers, to show Aastha had the authority in the group. Suddenly, Aastha shouted, “Oi, lads get here.” causing us to attentively traced our eyes to her before we eagerly strode forward to get a peek at the image on her phone. There is a pause of two seconds before Ceri and I broke into a cacophony of excitement, rapidly bashing movements into each other and wildly waved our arms with wide grins to emphasise our rowdy, obnoxious behaviour. This showed that boys aren’t afraid of being shy about their honest thoughts as we ogled the image and made tactless comments on the ‘Hotness’ of the girl. However, the girls’ scene juxtaposed this by Leah stood in an upright position with Aastha, Ceri and I kneeled down to show the hierarchy and superiority of Leah in the group. We were all huddled together stared directly forward and mimed makeup actions, to create a smaller proxemic gap and reflect how as girls we like to be together in tight packs; more secretive and judgemental in fear of our reputation being ruined. When I first saw the image, I showed my shock through a few second

In today’s generation, teenagers have not known a life without technology. To them, it is second nature. Teenagers, with their raging hormones and access to technology, are inevitably going to discover sexting especially since it is growing due to its popularity in social media. It is more common than people may think. To minors it may seem like a harmless act to explore their sexuality. However, the law says otherwise. If they engage in sexting, adolescents can find themselves with a criminal charge. To gain a clearer understanding of the controversial issue on teen sexting, it is essential to know the development of adolescents, the impact sexting has on teens, and finally the sex laws set that relate to sexting.

Adults are becoming worried about this generation’s teenagers becoming lazy, drug addicted, sex crazy adolescents who are absorbed in technology. One of the areas that parents have increasingly began panicking about is sexting. “Sexting” (sex-texting) is defined as sexual messages being sent or received through the form of either photograph or message (KidsHealth, 2014). Sexting has now been blown out of proportion as a moral panic. A moral panic is an irrational fear that citizens develop after an incident, they feel threatens the ethics of society occurs (Crossman, Ashley, 2018). There are many ways to “protect” adolescents from sexting such as; the many options that allow parents to control their children’s internet use, advertising the

One specific phenomenon that has emerged with the increase of smart phones and personal technology is the issue of sexting; the sharing or exchange of sexual messages or images (thesocietypages). As the deviant act of youth sexting is more common than parents might realize or want to admit (CNN), Kelly Wallace investigates how youth’s sexual behavior has become normalized through the act of sexting. The article, “Is Your Teen Using Apps to Keep Secrets?” explores how much of today’s youth share sexually explicit messages through the tech savvy world.

Sexting – teens sending sexually explicit photos of themselves via cell phones, email, or instand message – has become the latest in a line of highly charged issues involving kids and the internet. Sexting has become a widespread occurance that has destroyed lives and has caused emotional distress to many teenagers and young adults. Sexting gives teenagers the feeling of acceptance and the chance to be popular by gaining attention but what they fail to realize is the attention they are receiving is negative and it affects their reputation. Once a sext message has been sent, the receiver is given the opportunity to show the message to his or her peers and which will bring negative attention to the sender. Teenager’s sext for

Over the years so much has changed in terms of peoples views on young peoples sexuality and on sexting and the rules and consequences associated with sexting. If you jump forward a generation or two to the contemporary world, you will realise the social and sexual landscape has changed dramatically. Sex is regulated less and is in some ways less risky for many young Australians. More young people are having sex and more are having sex at young ages. Social mores have changed. The feminist and gay rights social movements have mobilised for legal and social change. For heterosexual young people, effective contraception is widely available and pregnancy terminations are legal and available through the public health care system. Homosexual sex

In the article by Dir and Cyders (2014), the researchers evaluate sexting behavior as it relates to various outcomes afterwards. While sexting is not always associated with risk taking, there were things such as “sexts sent to other people”, “caught sending a sext”, and “regret and embarrassment after sexting” that made the top three “negative sexting experiences”(p.

Sexting is an informal method that is used to illustrate the love and affection between two people. This idea of sexting is not only unromantic but it is also alarming. Those who do partake in sexting usually do not think about the possible consequences that could eventually lead to humiliation, depression, and/or judgmental comments. Out of all the sexting incidents that I have observed, none of them seemed to have a positive outcome. These sexting incidents always ended up with someone getting emotionally hurt. According to what I viewed in my high school years, the cause of sexting was usually formed either through peer pressure, the desire to fit in with the “popular kids” in school, or just to try a new tactic that one would hope that

Females and individuals who sext increase their risk for multiple forms of cybervictimization (Reyns et al., 2013, p. 11). Similarly, Abeele et al. (24) suggest that sexting may lead to adolescent girls having a “slutty” reputation among female and opposite sex peers. Two commonly perceived risks amongst university students in Renfrow and Rollo’s (2014) study include having a sext shared with unintended viewers and “taking things too far” (individuals feared certain language used would lead to self-objectification and send an inaccurate message). Among adolescents, sexting can be beneficial on the basis of peer acceptance including the various peer group dynamics examined (Abeele et al., 2014, p. 25). Correspondingly, Renfrow and Rollo (2014) pose common ways in which individuals perceive sexting as normal. Respondents suggest sexting may maintain and strengthen a relationship in addition to providing a safer alternative to actual sex (Renfrow & Rollo, 2014, p.

Several definitions of sexting exist - some very broad, others extremely specific. Lenhart defines sexting as, “creating, sharing and forwarding of sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images” (Lenhart, 2009, p. 3). Regardless of how we define sexting, however, its existence is pervasive and, I argue, a product of the media-internet

In 2010, the Pew Research Center reported that 4 percent of cell-phone using teens have sent sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of themselves by means of text messaging ( Russo & Arndt 36). In other words this is basically stating that out of all the teens that have cell-phones 4 percent have misused them by sending a nude or nearly nude image. Clearly this research is saying that 4 percent of all teens that have phones have sexted in 2010 and the number has increased over the years. Not only is sexting used over text but online as well. According to the National Campaign 20 percent of teenagers have used electronic means to send or post nude or seminude photos or videos of themselves online ( Russo & Arndt 36). This research means that 20 percent of teenagers have posted risky pictures online where multiple people can see. It is clear you should be more cautious of things you post online for all your friends to see. There are obviously some tragic incidents that can happen due to sexting. In July 2008. Two female teenagers committed suicide because the pictures had gotten forwarded to others around the school (Russo & Arndt 36). These two girls obviously had sent these explicit photos to somebody who they could not trust. Without a doubt you should be very careful and think twice before you hit send or post. Watch what you post because it can have a negative

One serious issue is sexting, Sexting among teens is not only illegal, but harmful and dangerous among the sender and the receiver. Both are held responsible for child pornography and can be dealt serious consequences. Sexting causes an increase in teen suicides, anxiety self-esteem and involves pressure meaning another forum cyberbullying. Exposing these pornographic photos will not only stress the deliverer but lead to sexual harassment in conclusion.

While the increased access to technology over the recent years provides almost every consumer with new communication tools at his or her fingertips, it also leads to negative effects. “Sexting” has become extremely popular, especially among teenage consumers. This new action is said to be any sexually explicit messages or pictures between cell phones. Sexting has become so emotionally and physically dangerous that there have been cases where suicide or other self-inflicted injuries have occurred because of the spreading of these messages. The dangers of sexting have been introduced to the public but more people need to become fully aware of the dangers that can occur from the misuse of technology.

Snapchat is a hyper-popular social media network that “eighty percent” of teens use1. It is an app that allows the users to send disappearing photos and videos. However, Snapchat is not the hunky-dory social media platform it is perceived to be. In fact, using it will waste of space on your phone. Waste your’s and other people’s time and security.