Nude teen playing with bottles

Description:In March, three teenage girls sued a Pennsylvania prosecutor who accused them of peddling "child pornography," after a teacher discovered a waist-up image of two girls covered just by a bra, and another image of a girl topless. According to a survey by a US family planning organization, published in December, 20 percent of American teenagers said they had participated in sexting. In other cases, a "bored" Florida boy was charged for sending a photo of his genitalia to a female classmate, while another was listed as a sex offender for emailing nude photos of his year-old girlfriend to her family after an argument. District Attorney George Skumanik called for the girls to undergo five weeks of behavior courses and take a drug test or face prosecution , according to a letter apparently sent to the teenagers' parents. Cumming said that to consider labeling a teen a sex offender because of a sexting incident -- a label that will stick for life -- defies common sense. Peter Cumming, an associate professor at York University in Toronto, presented a paper on children's sexuality at the 78th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences defending the practice as a modern variation on "playing doctor or spin-the-bottle. Youths exchanging nude photos of themselves over cellphones, known as "sexting," should not face child pornography charges, as some have in the United States, a humanities conference heard Tuesday.

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