Stephanie Rietz - Associated PressMSNCB.COM June 4, 2008
HARTFORD, Conn. - Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, LIKES you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones and sending them to their boyfriends and girlfriends.
Many of these pictures are falling into the wrong hands — or worse, everyone's hands, via the Internet — and leading to criminal charges.
Some parents are aghast.
"I just don't understand why kids would do a stupid thing like that," said Rochelle Hoins of Castle Rock, Colo., where 18 students in her twin sons' middle school sent around nude pictures of themselves last year. "We did dumb things when we were kids, but not like that," said Hoins, whose sons were not involved.
Similar cases have been reported in New Jersey, New York, Alabama, Utah, Pennsylvania, Texas and Connecticut.
My note; Is this really startling to anyone? And yet I continue to read about schools that won't teach birth control methods, other than abstinence, because it may give the students the idea to go out and have sex. Note that the story of the 18 students sending nude pictures were middle school students. Isn't that 13-14 years old?? Another story I read recently told of the high rate of sexually transmitted diseases (SDT's) in teens. One in four or something like that!! They're having sex folks. This is the "hook up" generation. They don't even date in the fashion we knew.
When are we going to get over this big taboo about sex and face the reality of things. The natural sex drive starts when we are teens. In the 1700's couples were marrying and starting families at 14 years old. Teach teens about contraceptives and then provide them if they ask for them. Why do we make them wear seat belts? So they don't get injured if there's an accident. Well?????
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