What is the
Point of Sexting!?
By: Vincent Bohnert
Sexting is the act of sending nude or inappropriately
exposed photos of oneself to another person via electronics [1]. Now, as you might know already, this isn't the
smartest idea. What I mean primarily by
this is even if you hypothetically (of course) would want to send photos of
yourself in a nude state to your boyfriend, girlfriend, friend for some reason,
etc., what you have to remember is that the photo(s) you send are at SOMEONE
ELSE’S disposal other than yours. You can
only control what you do, not what someone else does. While that person may be
your girlfriend, boyfriend, or friend today, tomorrow is a whole new day. Next thing you know you could be sworn
enemies with that person and you end up being so furious towards him/her that
you completely forget about the sexually explicit photo you gave to them. Although the next day your newly found nemesis
reminds you of the photo (believe it or not) by posting it all over the social
media world so any person with internet access can view it. Please don’t make this hypothetical example
come to life; you could’ve avoided this completely by just not taking those
types of pictures of yourself in the first place, let alone sending it to
someone else.
There has
been a story in the news recently about a Lower Moreland High School teacher
voluntarily taking naked videos/photos of herself and sending them to one of
her 17 year old students and then later having sexual intercourse with that
same student [2]. Although this math
teacher was obviously having a rough life at the time (why else would she have
made those poor decisions), she’ll be paying for it with her job, career, and
$50,000 (bail) for having sex with a minor according to nbcphilidelphia.com [2]. This story just emphasizes the dangers of
sexting (as well as the craziness) in which I’m trying to convey.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Teacher-Suspended-for-Sex_-Sexting-With-Student_Philadelphia-242667271.html?akmobile=o&nms=y
[1]Stamm, Dan, and David Chang. NBC10,
"nbcphilidelphia.com." Last modified January 30, 2014. Accessed
January 30, 2014. http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Teacher-Suspended-for-Alleged-Sexting-Sex-With-Student-242673061.html.
[2]Wikipedia, "en.wikipedia.org." Last modified
January 29, 2014. Accessed January 30, 2014.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexting.
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