There is an article in today’s Herald Sun that I find quite disturbing. The article, “Explicit teen sex text messages sent on student mobiles”, goes onto explain about how a teen girl and two teen boys have been questioned over some explicit videos and images that have made their way across town via mobile phones. Not images that the teens have downloaded and shared — these are images that they have been participants in making.
One video shows the girl having sex and the other sexually explicit film shows the girl on her own.
It is understood the girl was a willing participant in the films.
The footage has been seen by thousands of school students.
Police have spoken to the girl in the past about sending naked images of herself via SMS.
What disturbs me the most is that there is no mention about the parents of these particular children, and further, what sort of lifestyle have these kids, and in particular, that young girl, grown up in? Why has she felt the need to send images of herself naked to others, and participate in sex acts for viewing by others, and not as intimate moments? I am sure that if you ask her she would be quite proud of her looks and the notoriety she is getting (not to matter the guys!) but surely someone has got to sit down with this girl and talk it out with her?
No mention of these kids being underage, a fact that seemed obviously missing from the article.
I guess the article doesn’t have the scope to cover that, but reading between the lines, I felt sick, and disturbed that the articles’ major concern was the fact that these videos and images had been sent into the common arena via mobile phone, not that they existed at all. There must have been a conscious and very planned decision for these to have been taken/made and then disseminated. That last line I quote from the article about haunts me the most, right behind the line about the thousands of students who have seen the videos.
(It also occurred to me after I finished the post, the traffic that will be directed to this post after Googling, all because of the article’s topic! Sad!)
