Judith Levine, on the teen sexting panic (that also wasn’t)

From her column at American Prospect, some smart cold water to throw on the the latest technological bogeyman, the mobile phone: “The sexual dangers to youth, online or off, may be less than we think. Yet adults routinely conflate friendly sex play with hurtful online behavior…[e.g.] the San Francisco-based Family Violence Prevention Fund, which calls sending nude photos ‘whether it is done under pressure or not’ an element of ‘digital dating violence.’”

2 Comments

  1. Posted March 27, 2009 at 3:44 pm | Permalink

    Great piece, hadn’t seen it! fyi, though, it’s by Judith Levine, not Debbie Nathan.

  2. Posted March 28, 2009 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

    Thx, Rachel — fixing!

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