{"id":4935,"date":"2011-10-03T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2011-10-03T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:25:09","slug":"florida-eases-penalties-for-teen-sexting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/03\/florida-eases-penalties-for-teen-sexting\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida eases penalties for teen sexting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Before Saturday, a Florida teenager who sent or received nude photos or video could have been charged with a felony and forced to register as a sex offender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/01\/us\/florida-sexting\/\">But they fixed it.<\/a> Now you get community service and a fine, but if you keep getting caught, you eventually get charged with a felony.  <\/p>\n<p>In related news, it turns out that a main cause of sexting is &#8220;peer pressure.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both young men and women experience peer pressure to share sexual images via the new phenomenon of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsexting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, preliminary findings from a University of Melbourne study has found.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSexting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is the practice of sending and receiving sexual images on a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>The study is one of the first academic investigations into \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsexting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 from a young person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perspective in Australia. The findings were presented to the 2011 Australasian Sexual Health Conference in Canberra<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com.au\/news\/20110210-22678.html\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Saturday, a Florida teenager who sent or received nude photos or video could have been charged with a felony and forced to register as a sex offender. But they fixed it. Now you get community service and a fine, but if you keep getting caught, you eventually get charged with a felony. In related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/03\/florida-eases-penalties-for-teen-sexting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florida eases penalties for teen sexting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1hB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}