Image via WikipediaSixteen-year-old Dewayne never asks teen girls at his Bronx high school to send him naughty pictures of them scantily clad or nude but they do.
"Girls just walk up to me, start a conversation, ask for my cell phone number and it's on," said Dewayne, who is handsome and athletic.
According to a recent survey on the parental control website parentalcontrolapps.com 20% of all teens are sexting; 22% of girls and 18% of boys. Sexting includes sending and receiving sexual photos and text messages. It's sex and written text colliding in a technology driven society and dubbed "sexting" that has young people moving into fast paced relationships that leave little left to the imagination.
"Girls are very aggressive these days, worse than boys, we don't have to work hard at all to get a date," Dewayne said.
Psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Gardere said there are many girls who want to be "too sexy too soon" and they use cell phones, computers, and iPods to be aggressive. Gardere said tweens and teenage girls who participate in sexual behavior choose to hide behind a veil, instead of interacting socially because the veil allows them to say things they wouldn't normally say and then hide.
Morgan, a 17-year-old high school senior at a prestigious New York City private school, said with the new age of technology girls are willing to put themselves out there in order to get noticed. CONTINUE....
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