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Youth Sexting: Using Theory to Identify the Problem and Propose a Solution

In 2009, two teenage girls, one from Florida and the other from Ohio, committed suicide after enduring extensive harassment and bullying from their peers for ‘sexting’–sending sexually explicit images of themselves–to their boyfriends (Meyer, 2009).  Since then, few themes have dominated national discourse quite so pervasively as ‘sexting’, with the media leading the debate over … Continue reading →