I'm sure some of you are going to say,"OMG, not that stupid Christian again," but here's my take.

Many of the people that are vocal about this are Christians worried about lust. They think having sex outside of marriage, or even thinking about it qualifies as lust. As with the word sodomy, I think most have fallen under the umbrella of people who have added meaning to the Bible, which is where a lot of misery comes from.(adding things to the Bible causes misery, not the Bible itself :p ;) )

My opinion(key word here) is that it only counts as lust if you're thinking about your own pleasure more than the other person's. If you're more about the other person's pleasure than your own, or want the pleasure for yourself just as much as you want it for the other person, then in my mind your safe from the judgement of God in that particular instance.

YMMV

Oh my God! Teens are interested in SEX!

The crisis! The Crisis!

Geez... if anything, things are better today then they ever have been. Just look at teen pregnancy stats.

And there was a time when teen pregnancy was THE NORM.

There are obviously some people in high places that have a very unhealthy and negative attitude towards sex and growing up.

this story would have more teeth if lil' silvie woulda had a go at it

Very misleading. Let us take each paragraph...

Partially nude... In other words a swim suit photo.

The survey is pretty small at 1280 teens. The other is that 18 and 19 year olds are legal adults... and those legal adults make up 29% of the survey.

Then they expand the group to 26 year olds, which means only 36% were minors. Also sexually suggestive message could be a dirty joke. Pretty lame really.

Then it goes on to say that 80% are actually responsible kids. Considering 29% are adults, that is pretty good.

Having 1/2 think sending dirty stuff might get them laid is no big deal. That means they think it but do not do it and considering 1/2 are males, I think that number is probably higher.

Higher teen pregnancy... maybe they should promote cybersex :p

This next paragraph is the only valid one, pointing out that the study is flawed as teen pregnancy has dropped in the last 10-15 years, not gone up as technology grew.

The NCPTUP's responce to this is just lame. Saying the US's teen pregnancy is worse than 'other' developed countries is pretty vague. They could be only comparing us to countries were the Abortion pills are legal. What really is a developed country? I know things are a lot worse in some.

So to put it bluntly... they needed to survey only minors, separate the questions into finer categories, like fully nude pictures, cyber-sex, and whether they have met someone online and hooked up with them for sex. Maybe they should include numbers like how many of these kids have already had sex (not relating to technology).

I should probably get a camera phone, been missing out on all the fun.