Sociological Study: Sexting Trends, Risks, and Prevention Strategies

This essay examines the sociological implications of sexting, particularly among adolescents. It highlights the increasing prevalence of sexting due to technological advancements and a lack of parental guidance, leading to potential risks such as cyberbullying and legal consequences. The essay suggests that parents should actively monitor their children's online activities, educate them about the dangers of sexting, and establish healthy boundaries for social media use. Furthermore, it argues that adults involved in sexting should face legal prosecution to deter harmful behavior and protect vulnerable youth, emphasizing that sexting is not harmless flirting but can have severe psychological and social consequences.

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Sociology
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Response 1
Sexting has become the current new trend among the teenagers, the adults and mostly
among the adolescent group of individual throughout the globe. Each and every day, lot
number of adults and teenagers fall for this trend to send sexy pictures or dirty messages by
personal devices to some one else. The context of sexting furthermore includes the exchange
of nude and illicit messages in the social and the online platform with unknown people
through out the world. Children in the current generation get addicted to their social media
accounts, falls as prey to many unknown and harmful hackers with who they make friends
and fall under challenging conditions. Anywhere among 20% to 60% of the teens admit to do
sexting as the way to flirt or to get attention pushing the boundaries and the limits (Kail &
Cavanaugh, 2018,Chapter 7, pp. 263). With the changing level of the technology, sexting has
been popular among the young people who got engaged in the activity without knowing the
consequences of the sexting. Sexting in the current decade have been enormously rising
among the adolescents due to the lack of the proper guidance from the school teacher and the
parents (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2018, Chapter 7, pp. 243). Young people tend to take impulsive
decisions since most of the time the parents of the children are not aware of the technological
advancements and the messages or the images their children are sharing to other people
which may furthermore lead them to trouble towards being sexual offender (Channel 4 News,
2012). Sending nudes to other person via personal technological device may tend to cause
bullying, criminal offense since these can get leaked leading to further embarrassments.
Response 2
The parents should enable some of the effective measurements to prevent their
children and the adolescents group of people from sexting (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2018, Chapter
7, pp. 257, 267). Some of the things that the parents can undertake includes setting up of a

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healthy set of environment, monitoring of the cell phones and the platform of social media
that the children uses, explaining the adolescents, the probable consequence of sexting,
setting of the limits to the use of the social media and educating the teens regarding the right
thing to be done. The parents or the adolescents who are engaged in the terns of the practise
of sexting should be prosecuted by law since these can be harmful and embarrassing leading
to be sexual offenders (Channel 4 News, 2012).This is because the children I the current
generation learn from what they tend to see and observe. In the news of the practise of the
rampant level of sexting aong the adults will, only influence them to indulge in the harmful
activity more deeply. They should be prosecuted so that the other children who have also fall
for the trap can understand that sexting is not the act of harmless flirting but can affect their
upcoming life furthermore impacting their mental and the psychological health.

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Reference
Channel 4 News. (2012, December 12). Generation sex: the consequences of 'sexting'.
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBmhGX-jcQ0
Kail, R. V., & Cavanaugh, J. C. (2018). Human development: A life-span view. Chapter 7.
Cengage Learning.