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Sexting for a New Generation Lucy, what are your thoughts on sending nude pictures to your boyfriend? I’m seventeen (and, arguably, surrounded by douchey teenage boys) and am very reluctant about sexting with images because I would never want it going viral via said douchey teenage boys. My thoughts on sexting to teenage boys are: NEVER DO. Even if he’s your boyfriend and you love him and trust him, you are right in acknowledging that he’s probably surrounded by many (perhaps “douchey”) teenage boys. Even if he swears he’ll never show your personal photos, there’s more than a slim chance that they could be seen by undesirable viewers. What if he leaves his phone somewhere? Or his buddies hear about the photos and tease him by stealing his phone? Or he uploads the photos to his computer, and someone else has access to his computer?  The list of “what ifs” goes on, but the result is always the same: you would be the one with the shitty consequences. You are right to be aware of the fact that risky pictures could “go viral.” And this could be really terrible for you some time in the future. The easy accessibility of people’s personal photos, through sexting and the internet, is still a new phenomenon. We really don’t know how it can, and will, go. More importantly, if you don’t know where the sexy photos of you end up, then you don’t know when those sexy photos of you could resurface. The ethics and laws on these things are still being figured out. But you certainly do not want some regrettable thing from when you were 17 to ruin a job interview 20 years from now, for instance. I am relieved to hear that you are reluctant to send nude photos of yourself out into the cosmos. That is seriously the right attitude to have - keep it up forever! And if some douchey dude is pressuring you to do it anyway, get him out of your life now. Because those photos can be forever. xoxo,  Lucy

Sexting for a New Generation

Lucy, what are your thoughts on sending nude pictures to your boyfriend? I’m seventeen (and, arguably, surrounded by douchey teenage boys) and am very reluctant about sexting with images because I would never want it going viral via said douchey teenage boys.

My thoughts on sexting to teenage boys are: NEVER DO.

Even if he’s your boyfriend and you love him and trust him, you are right in acknowledging that he’s probably surrounded by many (perhaps “douchey”) teenage boys.

Even if he swears he’ll never show your personal photos, there’s more than a slim chance that they could be seen by undesirable viewers. What if he leaves his phone somewhere? Or his buddies hear about the photos and tease him by stealing his phone? Or he uploads the photos to his computer, and someone else has access to his computer? 

The list of “what ifs” goes on, but the result is always the same: you would be the one with the shitty consequences. You are right to be aware of the fact that risky pictures could “go viral.” And this could be really terrible for you some time in the future.

The easy accessibility of people’s personal photos, through sexting and the internet, is still a new phenomenon. We really don’t know how it can, and will, go. More importantly, if you don’t know where the sexy photos of you end up, then you don’t know when those sexy photos of you could resurface. The ethics and laws on these things are still being figured out. But you certainly do not want some regrettable thing from when you were 17 to ruin a job interview 20 years from now, for instance.

I am relieved to hear that you are reluctant to send nude photos of yourself out into the cosmos. That is seriously the right attitude to have - keep it up forever! And if some douchey dude is pressuring you to do it anyway, get him out of your life now. Because those photos can be forever.

xoxo, 

Lucy

12 July 12
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