Kids will be kids.
Which means kids will sext.
Sexting is running rampant amongst our nation's youth, 26 percent of which has sent a romantic partner a sexually-explicit photo sometime over the past two months, according to a new study.
To be published in the Behavior & Information Technology journal, the study found that teenagers don't think about being blackmailed with their naughty images or later seeing their naked bodies published on the Internet. Instead, they sext in order to please partners -- and peers, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Hopes for "positive outcomes" are why teens sext each other, according to the study, as well as sexting "for attention, to lower the chances of catching STDs, and to find a romantic partner."
Sexting may be a way of life for young people today: in Britain, as many as one-third of youth routinely send images of theselves via text messages or emails. Rather than something wrong, sexting is seen as a "fact of life."
