Low Risk Associated with Most Teenage Sexting: A Study of 617 18-Year-Olds

By E. Englander. 2012

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‘If a girl’s photo gets sent around, that’s a way bigger deal than if a guy’s photo gets sent around’: gender, sexting, and the teenage years (2018, background): “In her study of 617 college freshmen from a state university in Massachusetts, Englander (2012) showed that 13 percent of those who sexted reported problems because their photo was shown to their school peers.”
Youth Sexting: Prevalence Rates, Driving Motivations, and the Deterrent Effect of Legal Consequences (2014, background): “Several researchers have more narrowly operationalized sexting to include exclusively nude or both nude and semi-nude images (e.g., Englander 2012; Lenhart 2009; Mitchell et al. 2012; Strassberg et al. 2013).”
Policing ‘sexting’: Responsibilization, respectability and sexual subjectivity in child protection/crime prevention responses to teenagers’ digital sexual expression (2014, background): “While the purported prevalence of teens’ voluntary involvement in sexting varies from 4 per cent to 30 per cent (Lenhart, 2009 and Englander, 2012: 2 respectively) and the rate of criminalization for the possession and production of youths’ ‘selfproduced child-pornography’ (Leary, 2008) remains…”