Digital Discourse Database

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Sexting: stick to your fingers

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Newspaper | Men's Health
Date | 1.2.2014
Language | English
Country | India
Topic Tags | sexting
Summary | Sexting is a great way to spice up one's marriage or to find out about one's sex partner's sexual fantasies and preferences. Many people do it, 66% report to have sexted before [no detailed information about this statistic].There are a lot of Do's and Dont's: Men should however never show anyone the sexts they received from women because they risk their reputation. One should always use sexting as an opportunity to find out what their sex partners secretely want in bed. Also, while many people think sexting with a third person while in a committed relationship is no issue, psychologists agree that it does constitute a breach of trust.
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Sexting’s paradox: it’s just no fun

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Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 24.2.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | online dating, research/study, sexting
Summary | Many people lie when sexting, meaning that they might be having a snack in their kitchen wearing sweat pants but writing something completely different. Because sexting is so completely detached from any actual physicality the mere innuendo is enough to entertain participants, even if it does not lead to an actual orgasm. Sexting is in a way a 'shared daydream'. A recent study reports that about half of their informants had sexted even though they were not really up for it.
Image Description | Photograph of a topless woman lying on a bed on her stomach with two kittens and jeans ripped so that they reveal parts of her behind.
Image Tags | female(s)

No, She’s Not Really Wearing That. The Sext You Just Got Is Probably a Lie.

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Newspaper | Slate
Date | 11.4.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | research/study, sexting
Summary | A study about college students' sexting activity published in 'Computers in Human Behavior' shows that 45% of women lie while sexting, for instance when saying that they are wearing lingerie when really they are really doing something completely different, as opposed to only 24% of men. Because sexting can be completely ficticious, one can adopt a different sexual personality in sexting exchange that is nothing like one's actual sexual personality. The study also shows that a lot of disinterested sexting happens where people just go along with it even if they are not that into it because they are 'bored'.
Image Description | Getty photograph of a woman looking at her smartphone in public.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone

Have you got text appeal?

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Newspaper | The Evening Standard
Date | 4.4.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | misunderstanding, online dating, texting
Summary | Negotiating relationships and sexualities via new media can be challenging. The online forum hetexted.com helps people (mainly women) 'decipher' the social meanings of text messages. Many women use the site to get advice about what their love interest meant with a text message and how they should respond depending on their intentions. The creators of the site report that the demand is huge so that they even expanded to London as well (they had started in New York). They have however realized that dating customs and hence texting conventions are culturally distinctive.
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The naked truth; the hacking of celebrities' intimate images has highlighted a startling phenomenon: sexting has gone mainstream

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Newspaper | The Sunday Times
Date | 7.9.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | sexting, youth
Summary | Both the leaking of dozens of celebrity nudes by hacking of the iCloud and the new Cameron Diaz film “The Sex Tape” show that sexting is a really common phenomenon by now. The shock in the celebrity nude images leak really lies in the breach of privacy and not in the mere existence of such material. Middle-aged adults also participate in sexting: "It's like an animalistic peacock display that's filtered up from the teens.”
Image Description | Portrait of Jennifer Lawrence pulling a funny face.
Image Tags | female(s)

How girls at Tinder age are being exploited

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Newspaper | Belfast Telegraph
Date | 15.3.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | online dating, threat, youth
Summary | Teenagers as young as 13 years old can participate on Tinder. The app creators claim that there is nothing wrong with teenagers connecting with their peers but Tinder is really not as innocent as that. The app, which is colloquially labeled a hook-up app, focuses on looks and the general tenor in chats between 'matches' is strongly oriented towards obtaining sex partners. Parents should pay attention to their children's Tinder use and Tinder should have an older minimal age for having a Tinder profile.
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Warning teenagers over ‘sexting’

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Newspaper | The Argus
Date | 12.8.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | law, sexting, Snapchat, threat, youth
Summary | Sexting is becoming an increasing problem among youths in Southern England. Charities that work with teenagers (mostly girls) who have been victimized by having their nude selfies shared without their permission. There is a crucial difference between face to face flirtatious encounters versus on new media: men are reported to be much more forward on digital channels and that they very quickly request nude images. There is a lot of pressure on male participants in sexting to obtain nude images which almost counts as social currency among their male peers. The police are also not handling the situation well according to prevention organizations as they tend to criminalize the victims of sexting as sex child pornography offenders.
Image Description | Portrait of person mentioned in article and photograph of a woman holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone

Double Standards: Why sexting sucks

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Newspaper | Times Live
Date | 23.6.2014
Language | English
Country | South Africa
Topic Tags | gender, law, research/study, sexting, youth
Summary | A study by Julia Lippman and Scott Campbell where they interviewed teenagers about their attitudes towards sexting showed that a strong double standard exists between judging girls' versus boys' sexting activities. If girls sext, the are perceived as attention-seeking 'sluts' and if the do not engage in sexting, they are judged for being frigid. Boys are however pardoned for sexting because "boys will be boys". Minors sexting is further problematic because it is persecuted under child pornography laws.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman taking a selfie in lingerie.
Image Tags | female(s), selfie, smartphone

There’s an obvious reason why young people don’t use Snapchat for sexting.

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 6.1.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | sexting, Snapchat, youth
Summary | Snapchat's reputation as being designed specifically for sexting does not make much sense, as its designer has been arguing all along. At first look it may seem that way because sent pictures self-destruct within seconds. That, however, is enough time to do a screenshot, so women do not trust it enough to use it for sending nude images. Men, on the other hand, do not like sextin on Snapchat precisely because it is difficult to save the pictures. So on second thought, the app is really not useful for sexting. It is a good alternative for social media because one's mundane content does not remain there to embarrass one later.
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Growth in Snapchat use sparks cyberbullying and sexting fears

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Newspaper | Irish Examiner
Date | 27.2.2014
Language | English
Country | Ireland
Topic Tags | sexting, Snapchat, threat, youth
Summary | A recent survey says that 80% of 13-year-olds and 90% of 15-year-olds use Snapchat in Ireland. This rapid upsurge must be reflected in online safety prevention particularly because Snapchat is known to be used for teenage sexting. Sexting among minors is illegal as it qualifies as manufacturing and distributing child pornography. It is important that parents explain to their children that despite the self-destruct function on Snapchat, their content can still be stored by the recipients by screenshotting the snaps.
Image Description | Photograph of a girl/woman's torso holding a flip phone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s)

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