Teen Posts Nude Pics on MySpace …

jss | March 27, 2009

A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child pornography after posting nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com — charges that could force her to register as a sex offender if convicted.

She’s been released into her mother’s custody.

It’s all over the news, as though she killed someone. Actually, it has probably gotten more attention than if she killed someone. The media eats this stuff right up. But you’ll never read about the resolution of this case. They’re on to the next thing.

Teen Sex and the Case of the Missing Double Standard

jss | March 23, 2009

There’s a journalism problem, though. Because the two teens, the boy and the girl, were sentenced before The Beast raised the double-standard question. And guess what? They got similar sentences. Neither is doing jail time.

Sexting Hysteria

jss | February 11, 2009

… Not surprisingly, domain names such as sexting.com and mysexting.com have been snapped up; but so far, they’re just placeholders. I doubt it will be very long before a site launches that is devoted entirely to personal cell phone camera porn. If such a place already exists, someone point it out to me and I’ll give you a cookie.

You've Been Tempted.

Shadowy "Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2011, of a book by the same name.

The author and editor? Jeff Schult | DWM | New England | ... We've dispensed with pseudoanonymity.