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Is "Tech Sex" Somewhere Between Cyber Sex and Technical Sex?

Emily Farris — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Oh, sorry. We thought the term "sexting" was the word on the street for teenagers sending sexually explicit text messages from phone to phone, but apparently the "exting" suffix is a little too niche for the broader problem, which is "tech sex."

According to a new poll, one in five US teens has sent nude or near nude images to someone by phone or email, and twice as many have sent "suggestive electronic messages."

We don't really see how this is any different than the coded messages our "friend" used to send to our pager in high school, except this takes all the fun out of us having to consult a phone key pad to figure out that he had a dream that he was shaving our pubic hair.

Anyway, this is apparently a problem, or else there wouldn't be a news story about it, right? But the real problem, as we see it is (as we've pointed out before): if you take naked pictures with your cell phone they will get leaked. We promise.

At least it's not unprotected anal sex.

[AFP: One in five US teens has had 'tech sex': study]

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Colleen Kane — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:47:00 GMT

Two cheerleaders at Bothell High School in Washington state were naive enough to pose for nude cell phone photos and not realize the photos would be passed all around the school, which was what in fact happened. (Duh)

And now apparently according to the school and some commenters on the Internet, the cheerleaders are the only ones to blame.

The two young women in question have been suspended from the cheerleading squad, which is rather harsh, because what else are cheerleaders going to do with themselves? Now the parents are suing the school district. As one of them said, "If she had been caught taking illegal drugs twice, she would not have been punished this severely. The school has arbitrarily taken away the one thing that my daughter loves most. She will never get that back again."

Meanwhile, in the grand old tradition of condemning the high school female slut but not other participants in the slutting, not one student who passed around the photos to others has been sought out or questioned by the school. However, as part of this in-depth investigation, the nudie photos did get distributed further to members of the school administration. Apparently, they simply could not have come to a decision without seeing the photos -- one which, by the by, was taken when the girl was 13.

The teens' attorney said, "The student code of the conduct does say that athletes are held to a higher standard." (So that's another reason for us to never be athletes, besides laziness, being out of shape, lack of skill.) "The problem that we have -- one of my clients took the photo back when she was 13, before she even was a student at the school and the photo, unfortunately, has been following her around from grade level to grade level. As a result, I find it difficult to believe she can be punished for something violating a code of conduct that she simply had no knowledge of until after she got into high school."

We have a feeling that this is the kind of scandal that Europeans love to laugh at Americans for, for being so uptight about nudity in the first place, and we have another feeling that the commenters saying those cheerleaders got what they deserved are the same bozos who make up the Men's Rights Movement.

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Emily Farris — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:28:00 GMT

If we had to guess, we'd say "sexting" is sending a text message booty call. We'd be wrong. "Sexting," apparently, is "sexy photos being sent from phone to phone.... a trend that teens and their parents ought to know about. "

Because, uh, you could go to jail for it.

via videosift.com

We're going to start using the term our way. Somebody's getting sexted this weekend!

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