The 17-year-old was taking a nap when his cell phone buzzed. A video message had just arrived. A girl's naked body flashed on the screen, her fingers fondling herself. The surprised boy snapped shut his phone. Seconds later, it buzzed again.
"Am I better than your girlfriend?" a familiar voice asked. The boy immediately hung up.
Experts and high-school students both say that teens -- particularly girls -- are increasingly using naked pictures, raunchy messages and promises of no-strings-attached sex to get attention or nab a boy. In this case, the Groveport Madison High School boy says, a classmate has littered his cell phone with sexually graphic messages, offering everything from oral to anal sex, for months.
Charlie Boss
High-school administrators and police throughout central Ohio report similar stories about the consequences of this kind of display: Photos sent as part of a private conversation quickly spread.Sometimes, boys share nude pictures of their ex-girlfriends after relationships sour. Unsolicited photos can make the rounds more quickly.
For example, a Westerville South High School teen sent girls a cell-phone video of himself touching his penis, hoping they would respond with an equally explicit display. One girl sent a video of her own, but the rest forwarded the boy's message. At least 30 other students received a copy.
Because the exchanges often take place on cell phones or through private pages on social networking Web sites such as MySpace, police or school administrators frequently don't learn about them.
"I've seen everything from your basic striptease to sexual acts being performed" online, he said. "You name it, they will do it at their home under this perceived anonymity."
Jerome Ray, 18, a senior at Westerville Central High School, said girls often send him text messages laced with sexual innuendo. Once, he even received a naked photo from a classmate when he was sitting next to his girlfriend.
"A lot more girls are aggressive," Ray said. "Some girls are crazy, and they are putting themselves out there."
But the photo and the text messages are not for him. Ray said he's devoted to his girlfriend.
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