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Abstract: 

Sexting, the act of sending nude or seminude pictures or video via text message, has become an increasingly significant issue within our culture and legal system.Three articles on sexting are summarized below. Bryn Ostrager provides a proposal to protect and rehabilitate teenage sexters based on the number of photos taken or possessed and calls for the law to evolve along with technological advances. Mary Graw Leary calls for a multidimensional approach and dismisses several prosecutorial approaches as inadequate. Finally, John Humbach’s article focuses on the disconnect between draconian child pornography convictions for adolescent sexting and the governmental objectives stated in New York v. Ferber (1982) and Osborne v. Ohio (1990), leading cases which hold that the First Amendment is inapplicable to child pornography. Reviewed:

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Affiliations:  1: University of California.