2. By: Treyanna Spencer

3. What is Cybersex? What is Sexting? Why is it against the law? Why shouldn’t it be against the law? Awareness of Sexting Awareness of Cybersex Say “YES” Works Cited

4.  Cybersex is a virtual sexual encounter in which two or more people connect remotely via computer and send each other sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience.

5. Sexting (a portmanteau of sex and texting) is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily between mobile phones.

6. “The taking of a sexually explicit pictures of a child is manufacturing child pornography. The transmission (sending of that picture electronically or otherwise) is distribution of child pornography. Possessing such pictures is possession of child pornography. The Code of Virginia, as it relates to these crimes, considers a child any person under the age of eighteen. These crimes are felonies, maximum punishments range from 5 years to twenty years in prison. Some of the crimes have a mandatory minimum sentence of five years that cannot be suspended or reduced.” http://www.vachiefs.org/index.php/news/item/cyber_dating_ out_sexting_in/

8.  Cybersex is a fantasy that is shared between two people, it never HAS to actully happen.

9.  By engaging yourself in sexting/cybersex you are avoiding the real thing for whatever reason, this is a safer way to enjoy another person.

10. Sexting used to be a secret, parents knew nothing about it… NOT ANYMORE

11.  The images are usually always different in both nature and motivation from the type of content that anti-child pornography laws were created to address and handle.

13. It really offers females the ability to involve themselves in a sexual atmosphere, without the risk of becoming pregnant.

14. It allows people who are physically separated, for whatever reason, the ability to continue being sexually intimate.

15. It has been heavily reported in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, U.S., and Canada.

16. In 2007, 32 Australian teens from the state of Victoria were tried and prosecuted as a result of sexting.

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