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Trai_Dep
12/03/09

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I like that adolescent males are more demure, not sending as many pix as girls.
...Or, today's adolescent males need to put down the Taco Bell Big Gulps? Either/or.
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jordos1
12/03/09

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Really, teenagers are horny, sex crazed bags of hormones that will use every and any outlet to get off? What will they think of next? Moving pictures?
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once
12/03/09

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A friend & I had a disagreement about whether or not sexting etc is a good thing. My feeling is that it is anti-bohemian b/c it may police behavior, i.e., I can think of dozens of crazy nights in college that I would've been far more cautious about had I known Big Brother was recording me. (Polaroids are easier to control & you know when someone is taking them). And I wonder if only exhibitionist types participate in sexting etc.? My friend argued the opposite, that the current generation is far more open & free than we ever were - he also added that if people are indeed more cautious then maybe that's for the best. What do you think?
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drunkexpatwriter
12/03/09

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I still don't get why the AP and pretty much every news organization in the world is still talking about sexting and teens sending sexy photos and such.

Teenagers are curious about their bodies, don't understand boundaries and are just discovering the joys of sex.

If you hand them a device that allows them to create dirty pictures and send dirty notes of course they are going to do so.

When I was in high school the only reason we weren't having phone sex all the time is that your parents might hear you having phone sex. Now that it can be done silently it would be weird if kids weren't doing it.

As to the girls sending more pictures then the boys. I'm guessing there are three things going on here:

1. The girls just grew their tits and are proud of them. Of course they are going to want to show them off a bit. In 1985 this happened at Motley Crue shows instead of on the phone.

2. Boys are more likely to ask for naked pictures than girls are.

3. A lot of girls are less excited about seeing a wang than boys are about seeing tits.

4. Boys are more worried about their dicks being too small than girls are worried about their boobs being too small.
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Juancho
12/03/09

@drunkexpatwriter: totally. I'm imagining in Medici Italy they had nudes painted of their teen loves for their own "spank stack".

As for the tits thing- agreed. For me, the first time I saw naked boobs was much more memorable than the first time I had sex.
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skahammer
12/03/09

@drunkexpatwriter: It's just like you to promise three explanatory items, and then over-deliver by one.

Also, I find absolutely brilliant the suggestion that the internet is simply channeling everything that would, in 1985, have occurred at a Motley Crue concert. Finally, everything is illuminated.
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Steverino Begins
12/03/09

@drunkexpatwriter: " In 1985 this happened at Motley Crue shows instead of on the phone." Ha, heart.

On a related, breaking AP news story, some disposable cameras were left on tables at a wedding, and a few naked bathroom pics ended up on them. Developing...
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drunkexpatwriter
12/03/09

@skahammer: I thought of the fourth one at the last minute and then forgot to edit.

This is why for work I employ a proofreader.
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skahammer
12/03/09

@drunkexpatwriter: I just think of it as evidence that your cup runneth over, constantly.
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Kimrod
12/03/09

@drunkexpatwriter: I totally agree with you.

If cell phones had been around when I was in junior high school, half the globe would have seen my dick or beaver.

Best we could do was a poloroid and that wasn't fun.

At every function that involved en masse, "Show us your boobs!" was the war cry.
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drunkexpatwriter
12/03/09

@Kimrod: Polaroids were also expensive. Cell phone photos are free.
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tongue-tied
12/03/09

@Steverino Begins: Bride and groom in flagrante?
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Steverino Begins
12/03/09

@tongue-tied: No, I just meant pics of the wedding guests. I always hear of disposable cameras at weddings that get filled up with pics people anonymously took of their own junk/ass, etc...or maybe that's just my family's friends.
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badasscat
12/03/09

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When did sex stop involving putting things into other things?
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Steverino Begins
12/03/09

@badasscat: It's all metaphorical now. You're putting things into their "inbox."
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AzureTexan
12/03/09

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In my day, we sexted the old-fashioned way: We locked ourselves in the bathroom and thought about it.
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Kimrod
12/03/09

@AzureTexan: Ha Ha Ha O' the memories, ok I'm crying now.
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AzureTexan
12/03/09

@Kimrod: Yep, let me tell you: I had more nekkid ladies sashay through my 14-year-old neocortex than Tiger Woods will EVER see in his penthouse suite.
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A Message To Rudy
12/03/09

@AzureTexan: We used to do the sexy talk on the old party line. We'd ask Mildred to connect us to the Wilson residence, ask to speak to Clarice then get with the sexy talk. Sure, sometimes people would listen in, but it's all we had. Well, that and dirty Western Union telegrams.

Signed,
Really Old Guy
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AzureTexan
12/03/09

@A Message To Rudy: And by the time the Pony Express got back to me with her "yeah, baby, that's the way you like it," I'd pretty much lost my chubby.
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A Message To Rudy
12/03/09

@AzureTexan: Mildred stop Would like to meet you after barnraising stop got something I want to show you stop you make my breetches tight stop
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AzureTexan
12/03/09

@A Message To Rudy: dash. dash. dot. dash dash. dot. DOT. dassshhh. dasssshhhhh. dasssshhhhhhhhh. dot dotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdooooo... . . . . daaaaaaaaaaaaash.
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A Message To Rudy
12/03/09

@AzureTexan: LOL. You win. I can't write cuneiform on this particular computer.
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AzureTexan
12/03/09

@A Message To Rudy: Macs have always been bad with hieroglyphics, too.
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Mo MoDo
12/03/09

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Like totally. Sexting is so gnarly. Gag me with a spoon.

Or is my hip teen slang about three decades out of date?
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Unsolicited Advice
12/03/09

@Mo MoDo:

The 80's seriously started 30 fucking years ago.
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A Message To Rudy
12/03/09

@Mo MoDo: Fer sure
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Unsolicited Advice
12/03/09

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So now parents have to engage in massive group denial as a matter of public policy and when reviewing their little porn stars' MMS/SMS on the phone bill every month. I'd be surprised if the modern bible belt parent doesn't walk through a house full of laptops, cellphones, and scattered sexual paraphernalia screaming a constant hymn whilst wearing a sleeping mask and bumping into neighborhood kids bumping into each other.
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