Sexting on my Mind

In November, The Atlantic Monthly's cover story was "Why Kids Sext". While "sexting" is the process  of sending sexually explicit messages and/or pictures via cell phone, this magazine article was focused on the very common practice of junior high and high-school girls sending nude pictures to their male classmates.  The article was a heart-wrenching six pages long but if you have teenage daughters (or sons) or may have them someday, I recommend reading it and pondering this modern phenomenon that so many children are participating in. Yes, children. Remember, just because many (perhaps most) teenagers are sleeping around and partying and drinking and drugging- they are still children. Their brains are a decade away from being fully developed as they engage in all this "risky" behavior. Ruminate on that a while. 

I don't feel like providing my own commentary on the contents of the article and why the author thinks kids are sexting; however, I would think having so many sexting "starlets" as role models certainly doesn't discourage it. 

I would like to quote the illustrious Jennifer Lawrence who spoke to Vanity Fair after a bunch of nude "sexting" pictures of her were leaked last year: 

"I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for. I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you."

"Either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you."

Excellent advice for all the teeny boppers out there who love all your Hunger Games movies, Jennifer.

Truth be told though, Jennifer, I would bet you 50 bucks he was looking at porn anyways.

Lets be serious. 

A guy who doesn't give a…hoot about the sacred virtue of your body is not going to give a hoot about the virtue of true fidelity.

I highly doubt your body was the only one he was lusting after.

*drops mic*

But I say to you than anyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:28

Some red-letter words from Jesus Christ

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