Were calling this "sexting?"...seriously???

This phenomenon is terrific...I'm sorry, but it is.

This week there has been the story about this girl from a high school who was happy, popular, and all that crap (I'd find the link to story, but it's 3am and I'm busy eating Cheetos with a damn fork!)...well...she texted a nude picture of herself to her high school boy-toy and what do you know...the whole entire school ended up seeing her nude self.

She's distraught and she ends up whacking herself. Call me callous, as I can be, but this chick should get a nomination for the end of year Darwin Award. This is because one has to be INCREDIBLY daft to think that a high school boy, upon getting a nude pic of a hot girl texted to him, wouldn't send it along to his best buds...who would proceed to forward that son-bitch to the entire freaking state.

Well, now state governments and the federal government is looking at laws surrounding the "sexting."

For the record: I do not think "sexting" should be illegal in any way whatsoever.

For the record: I do not think the original recipient of the text of the nude young lady from the same lady should be prosecuted for child porn charges. That is unless, he does forward the pic onward to his friends. Then I'd be okay with some type of arrest record created, so he now has a file, be booked, and then given a fixed amount of community service upon his first offense (this goes for anyone else who forwards the picture on).

For the record: I support and endorse all students from grade 6 (maybe even earlier) to have yearly sexual education classes...no I mean real sexual education classes. The sex-ed classes we went to were such a joke it was ridiculous. And we were given some sex-ed in health class in high school, but it really should be it's own separate class with separate professional (I do NOT mean porn stars) teachers, and taught in sex-segregated rooms, with perhaps some activities that bring the two sexes together.

This includes frank discussion about masturbation, condom use, oral sex, anal sex, other ways to be intimate, the potential drawbacks to having sex (infections, diseases, a unit on babies), and the dangers of having ANY picture/video of you running around with your birthday suit on taken and how that could be disseminated to people you don't want to see it.

I continue to be tired of these parents not doing their bleeping job. But, perhaps we as a country should help them:

For the record: I am also for the establishment of night/weekend classes for parental units so they know how teens are able to communicate in the newly-wired world. Give parents at least some clue as to how quickly teens can find themselves in trouble, and give parents real, pro-active, and practical tools to help them help their children.

On the news a few nights ago, some expert said parents should monitor their text messages. Okay, the only way to do that really is see the itemized bill you may or may not get from the cell phone company and see what numbers texts were sent to and maybe the size of the text. There's really NO way to monitor text messages, like there was with e-mail where you could simply disconnect the internet connection when you went to sleep, or set up some kind of filter that sent a copy of all e-mails to you or something.

Alright...look...it's a damn shame this young woman had to off herself because some jackass sent the picture only meant for him to a few of his buds and it ended up going through the entire school. But, this is exactly what stupid teens who don't tend to think rationally need to hear...and by getting the message out there TRUTHFULLY about sex and the choices therein...we can mostly curtail this type of thing from happening.

Education, honest education (not right-wing religious psycho-babble about how if you touch your genitalia you're going to burn in hell for eternity), is the key here...not child-porn laws and laws about "sexting."

I think our law enforcement professionals have enough shit to worry about at this juncture.