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">These days the disturbing new trend in teenage flirting is sending聽nude or semi-nude photos聽from cell phone to cell phone: instead of "texting," they call it called "sexting."</p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">While the X-rated offerings are usually intended just for聽a boyfriend or girlfriend, the photos often wind up being shared. </p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">While 17-year-old Matthew Younger of Maryland says he has never done anything like this himself, he has seen it happen among his peers. </p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">"If a boy meets a girl or has a girlfriend on summer break he comes back and shows all his boys the [naked] pictures he's been sent. No one gives it that much thought really," says Younger.</p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO GbsKS pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AMhAA daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc ebfE nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX "><div data-testid="prism-ad-wrapper" style="transition:min-height 0.3s linear 1s" data-ad-placeholder="true"><div data-box-type="fitt-adbox-fitt-article-inline-outstream" data-testid="prism-ad"><div class="Ad fitt-article-inline-outstream ad-slot " data-slot-type="fitt-article-inline-outstream" data-slot-kvps="pos=fitt-article-inline-outstream-1"></div></div></div></div><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The dangerous combination of teenagers behaving provocatively and impulsively is not new, but the accessibility to the technology is. With cell phone cameras, they have been handed a tool so easy to use for some it's impossible to pass up.</p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">And in the transparent culture built around social networking sites, it all spreads like wildfire. </p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">"Somebody might send it to somebody else's phone and that person has Facebook on the their phone and they automatically upload it to their Facebook or MySpace page," explains Somalia Yaborow, 16, of Alexandria, Va.</p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">What teens don't realize is just how serious the consequences can be.</p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">News reports are increasingly documenting legal repercussions after indecent photo appear online. And attorneys say there are many unanswered questions about whether young people who send their own photos could face prosecution for obscenity or child pornography. </p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO GbsKS pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AMhAA daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc ebfE nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX "><div data-testid="prism-ad-wrapper" style="min-height:250px;transition:min-height 0.3s linear 0s" data-ad-placeholder="true"><div data-box-type="fitt-adbox-fitt-article-inline-box" data-testid="prism-ad"><div class="Ad fitt-article-inline-box ad-slot " data-slot-type="fitt-article-inline-box" data-slot-kvps="pos=fitt-article-inline-box"></div></div></div></div><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">This year in Wisconsin, a 17-year-old was charged with possessing child pornography after he posted naked pictures of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend online. </p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">In Alabama,聽authorities arrested聽four middle-school students for exchanging nude photos of themselves. In Rochester, N.Y., a 16-year-old boy is now facing up to seven years in prison for forwarding a nude photo of a 15-year-old girlfriend to his friends. </p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "></p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">"I don't think that's what was contemplated when the laws were written, says the Rochester teen's attorney, Tom Splain, who has worked on several similar cases this year. "I think it was more for the older pedophile collecting pictures of young children; we're now running into high school students getting swept up in these charges."</p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The nonprofit National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy has been researching the issue. </p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO GbsKS pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AMhAA daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc ebfE nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX "><div data-testid="prism-ad-wrapper" style="transition:min-height 0.3s linear 1s" data-ad-placeholder="true"><div data-box-type="fitt-adbox-fitt-article-inline-outstream" data-testid="prism-ad"><div class="Ad fitt-article-inline-outstream ad-slot " data-slot-type="fitt-article-inline-outstream" data-slot-kvps="pos=fitt-article-inline-outstream-2"></div></div></div></div><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Director Marisa Nightingale says it's crucial parents聽talk to their children about potential consequences, because while criminal charges are聽聽rare, compromising photos could easily come back to haunt the teens聽when they聽go to apply for college or聽their first聽job.</p><p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN ">"Even if it doesn't result in something official, they can get really humiliated and find something they thought was a joke can become something that haunts them for years," says Nightingale.</p></div><div></div><div class="Article__Footer Article__Footer--news"><div class="Article__Footer--items flex flex-wrap flex-no-wrap items-center justify-between"><section class="Share flex flex-no-wrap"></section></div><div class="StoryDivider StoryDivider--logo"><hr/><img alt="ABC News" class="Image Logo Logo__xxxl" data-mptype="image" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7"/><hr/></div></div><div 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