Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Do Social Networks, Texting and Sexting Help or Hurt Relationships? OMG, what a stupid question; they help; or do they? Multiple relationships on MySpace and Facebook, while also texting or sexting others is cheating. That might make sense to grown-up pretenders but not to a real grown-ups.
About Crime / Punishment (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Megan Sainsbury, a physical education teacher at Prospect High School in Saratoga, California, pleaded no contest to one felony count of attempted sexual penetration of a 17-year-old female student. Investigators said Sainsbury was guilty of kissing, hugging and "sexting" the student. Sainsbury is one of 125 females in our female predator photo gallery. More Photo Galleries : Females Who...
Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
There's been much discussion in the sports world lately about the long-term effects of repetitive head trauma in football. Today, Bruce Stern highlights an interesting question, are the helmets worn by football players doing more harm than good? Another great post: Tom Crane on the topic of Veteran's Day and honoring this generation's heroes. Vets Day: This Generation has Heroes, Too - Texas lawyer...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
FALMOUTH - The local police officer who allegedly texted a photograph of male genitalia to a woman this summer has been fired, Town Manager Robert Whritenour said. Michael...
BlogXilla.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Click Thumbnail to See Larger Pics One of the greatest things about relationships is getting a dirty text message. It’ even better when the person sending the dirty text message is Aubrey O’day. The singer and Maxim girl let the cat out the bag about her sexting until she woke [...]
Textually (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The American Association of Retired People ( AARP ) Web site recently posted a story that details the growing popularity of raunchy text exchanges among senior citizens. More and more of the 50+ set, both single and married, are using text messaging to spice up their sex lives. [via Switched ]
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The online world offers many opportunities for positive interaction with others, but with concern about sexting, cyberbullying and Internet predators, many parents wonder how closely they should monitor their teens.
Strange Justice (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Sex offender registry gets it wrong (who saw that coming?) Earlier this year, the Office of the Inspector general at the U.S. Department of Justice warned that the oh-so-popular sex offender lists maintained around the country, intended to track the predators among us who specialize in sexual crimes "are inaccurate and incomplete." The report caused a bit of a buzz at the time, then disappeared....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Teenagers may think it's harmless, but sending sexually explicit pictures and messages over cell phones can lead to emotional problems and criminal charges that will affect them for the rest of their lives, criminal justice officials said.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Teenagers may think it's harmless, but sending sexually explicit pictures and messages over cell phones can lead to emotional problems and criminal charges that will affect them for the rest of their lives, criminal justice officials said.
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
No matter how many debates we have about whether sexting or offensive T-shirts mean the proverbial sky is falling for our youth, some stories just make you shudder for today's kids: Saturday night , a 15-year-old high school student in Richmond, California was brutalized and gang-raped in front of a group on school premises after she left a homecoming dance. When police arrived on the scene, they...
Texting Sucks (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
DEL CITY, OK — A teacher at Del City High School is under investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to a male student. Over the past couple of days the allegations quickly spread around the campus and according to school …
chaosMonster (The Mind of Bob 2.0) (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Measures of "sexual irresponsibility" have gone down (pardon the term). Researchers measure this by looking at unwanted pregnancies and STD transmissions, both of which have fallen by more than 50 percent since the early '90s. Teen sex has also somehow become less common, falling 7 percent from 1991 to 2005. Granted, the horny buggers are all sexting , but that's typically a no-contact sport....
Sex Crimes (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
John A. Humbach (of Pace University School of Law) has posted a new article on SSRN entitled: 'Sexting,' the First Amendment and Prosecuting Teens. From the abstract: 'Sexting' and other teen autopornography are becoming a widespread phenomenon, with perhaps 20%...
Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
I just notices a pair of new articles in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reporting on the modern social problem of "sexting." The piece, available here and here, are headlined "Teens often don't grasp the consequences of sexting" and "Criminal charges from...
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