Like, your body is kind of new to you, like you said, and you're just not really sure about it and you're insecure and you see these other pictures and they don't really look like your body. Sexting in middle school? Until we resolve the issues, subscribers need not log in to access ST Digital articles. I also remember the crushing feeling when he dumped you and to feel like your entire world was crashing down. Like, this is totally common.

Like, your body is kind of new to you, like you said, and you're just not really sure about it and you're insecure and you see these other pictures and they don't really look like your body. Most of them probably had no idea that their photos had been forwarded to anyone other than the person that they'd sent them to. And she treated them both completely differently. GROSS: Again, in the kind of muddy territory of who's the perpetrator and who's the victim, if a girl sends a photo to a boy that she likes and the boy wants the photo, you know, has the girl done something wrong? She has lots of kids with lots of different fathers.

There was an autistic boy, and the girls had convinced him to send a picture of his genitals to them, and he did it. GROSS: Again, in the kind of muddy territory of who's the perpetrator and who's the victim, if a girl sends a photo to a boy that she likes and the boy wants the photo, you know, has the girl done something wrong? It's kind of a social currency more than it is a, you know, a springboard for fantasy, which is kind of surprising. In the letter to parents, school officials wrote that they have received "multiple reports from community members that one or more individuals is posting inappropriate content on a private social media platform, including nude images of MCPS students. Almost all of them have the Snapchat app.

Like most important conversations with your child, the one about sexting needs to be ongoing and grow along with them. But what they do not do is make a distinction between consensual sexts and nonconsensual ones. This is breaking my heart. Even if you trust him one hundred percent, someone can always get his phone and forward the picture. So that's the story the investigators pick up from the kids.