The "sexting" ... fad?

A while ago, during class, we read an article on “sexting”. I found this quite interesting because a day or two before that I had watched something about it on Dr. Phil.

A few questions had been brought up in both the article and the show.

The laws are abstract, and don’t focus on “sexting” but rather child pornography, which is different. Child pornography has laws that protect kids from perverted adults. I don’t believe that that should also cover children who give their consent in sending a picture of themselves to other children. When it comes to children forwarding a picture of someone else to all their friends, then I do believe it is against the law. If the person who took the picture didn’t send it to the other kids, then obviously, they didn’t want those people to see it.

Kids make dumb decisions. There’s really nothing we can do about that, and we can’t make a law against it.

“Sexting” has ruined people’s lives, because they never thought that simply pressing send would result in the things that it did. If kids were educated in what could happen, and the consequences that may ensue due to their actions, then most would get the message.

Also, I don’t think that courts should be bothered with something as simple as receiving a text message, I think they should deal with actual laws. In today’s world, if you type in the wrong thing in Google, then you’ll get a semi-nude picture. Why is it against the law if it’s in a text message?