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[Moontanman]

Sexting has been in the news here and it is being played up as the most horrible thing since 911. I know I live in the Bible belt but sexting is being hyped all out of proportion to any reality I am aware of. It reminds me of the idea of a woman who allowed herself to be seduced being doomed to a "fate worse then death" back in, I think, the Victorian era. It is being reported that in some obscure future when one of these guys or girls applies for a job their potential employer will be able to call up these pics from the Internet and the person will be denied a job because they took nude pics of themselves when they were young. Or more likely they will be prosecuted as child molesters and have to be listed on the Internet as a sex criminal for the rest of their lives. Or that the pics will lead to death and destruction in some particularly evil way. It is really getting out of hand and i think it's about time cooler heads stepped in and told all these concerned prudes that the real problem is making such a big deal about such an insignificant thing.