If Sexting Came With Terms of Service, Would Teens Think Twice?

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Sexting. It always starts innocently. You’re in the heat of the moment, defenses are low … and doesn’t sending an actual pic of your sassy self seem like the perfect way to follow up that eggplant emoji?

Don’t do it!

Of course, you know not to do it.

And yet.

You get stupid when you’re in heat. Young people especially are vulnerable to the risks. Once a photo, taken in confidence, has left your possession and begun its rapid-transit journey to another person’s phone, you’ve relinquished a certain level of control over your own narrative, cracking the door open for sexual exploitation.

But what

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