Trading Nude Photos Via Mobile Phone Now Part of Teen Dating
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves.
The instant text, picture and video messages have become part of some teens’ courtship behavior, police and school officials said.
The messages often spread quickly and sometimes find their way to public Web sites.
“I’ve seen everything from your basic striptease to sexual acts being performed,” said Reynoldsburg police Detective Brian Marvin, a member of the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force of Central Ohio. “You name it, they will do it at their home under this perceived anonymity.”
Some of those sexual acts include lesbian oral sex, kissing, fondling and even strap-on vaginal and anal fucking action as teen girls engage in amateur lesbian teen sex on cell phone cameras, and exchange photos with their friends or post them on the internet.
Westerville Central High School senior Jenny Ray said she’s received such unsolicited messages, including one from a classmate while she was sitting with her girlfriend.
A lot more girls are aggressive,” said Ray, 18. “Some girls are crazy and they are putting themselves out there.”
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Candice Kelsey, a teacher from California, said some teenage girls think they have to be provocative to get other girls’ attention, hoping to seduce them into a lesbian relationship. As a result, they will send photos they hope their parents never see.
“This happens a lot,” said Kelsey, author of Generation MySpace: Helping Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence. “It crosses every racial socio-economic group. Christian kids are doing it. Jewish kids are doing it.”
For instance, a central Ohio high school teen made a sexual cell phone video of herself and sent it to female classmates. One of the girls forward the Westerville South High School’s video to at least 30 other people.
A study last year found teens are placing more of an emphasis on image and fame than in the past. Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University who studies young people’s trends, found that teens are more confident and assertive than ever before.
“Adolescents are not known for thinking things through — that’s a generational constant,” she said. “Now, with the technology that is out there, instead of taking a picture and passing it around the classroom, it’s online, which is a whole different ball game. (Teens) don’t see it that way.”
Mark Raiff, a principal at Columbus’ Olentangy Liberty High School, said some of his students and their cell phones have caused trouble.
“They don’t see anything wrong with it,” he said. “It leaves me speechless.”
With lesbian relationships between young teen girls becoming more acceptable, many teen lesbians are feeling more confident about exposing their sexual experiences on videos and photos and sharing them with their friends. It’s a trend that is sure to continue into the future and even become more prevalent in amateur teen lesbian culture, as both dykes and “lipstick lesbian” teens express themselves sexually and then share them with their classmates.