16 year olds have rules whole empires. Would you call Alexander the Great a child? 18 is arbitrary and set by our nation’s laws. Adulthood is a concept that difference from society to society. 18 has nothing to do with the person’s maturity.

I have total body issues — breast reduction scars and stretch marks — so I would’ve never send a nude photo of myself. Does that make me more circumspect? No, just more chickenshit. Kids should absolutely not do this because it will come back to haunt them, but the underlying impulse to send a nude photo of themselves…

Maybe I misinterpreted? I thought you were referring to yourself. Perhaps I read it wrong.

My husband and I were just talking about this. We have three girls who are still little but wondered about possibly facing this type of situation in the future. It was my husband that said, “They traded naked photos. It isn’t like they were raping kids or tortured animals or something!” We also noted that often in…

Yea because in their minds they aren’t “children.”

Thank you, I was thinking the same thing (although Mark also calls them children.)

How about we call them what they are, “teenagers” or “high school students”? “Children” might be a term that correctly identifies people age 0-18, but it’s use in this context was purely designed to evoke a reaction.

I never said that they did. I’m just pointing out the rank hypocrisy where a 17 year old girl is so young, innocent and nieve that she can’t make decisions for herself (whether it’s sexting, choosing to have an abortion or go on birth control, having sex, buying cigarettes, drinking alcohol, etc), but if you’re a 12…

I think the “different” and “desirable” students were given points for attractiveness... Kids shared photos of maybe only the “hot” students, in essence. The school officials should have used quotes because I think this is how the kids RANKED points per student.

As somebody who sent a received tons of nudes when I was in highschool, I don’t get the big deal.

I never said anyone over the age of 10 is an adult. I said 10 but I could have said 5, 9, 7... Or any other number below puberty. The point was to bitch that by using the world children, the article intentionally blurs nuance and pretends there isn’t a difference between an actual child and a teenager. It ignores the…

Maybe it should be exactly as alarming as it seems

Some children’s are most desirable than others. My son is a stud. Sidenote I don’t have a child but I bet he would be handsome, or else it’s off to the adoption clinc.

What’s it like to know everything about sex and morality at 12 years old? My teenagers always tried to tell me that, and I tried to tell my parents the same thing, but we were wrong.

Yup. But it certainly wouldn’t be the first time.

The more clothes you have on, the less soul you lose. It’s just math.

God yes. I'm acutely aware that I was really fucking stupid in high school, it would be awful to have it documented.

It didn’t exist at all when I was in high school and I am profoundly grateful for that.

On the one hand, I didn’t even have Myspace until college. (We just chatted on AIM throughout that era.)

We are truly lucky in that regard. Witnesses to our high school horrors were limited to the few people that actually knew us and certainly didn’t make any sort of news.