Last year, a sex-photo scandal of a famous Chinese actor, Edison Chan, shocked the Chinese society. Hundreds of naked photos of several celebrated female stars, taken by Edison Chan, spread rapidly in the Internet. It was one of the gravest events in Chinese, especially Hong Kong entertainment industry. That actor took those photos, but he did not intend to disseminate them. It was a computer repair man, who uploaded all the pictures on line.
Even though they took photos just between couples, the scandal still happened and there is now nothing to change. This make people concern about their privacy safety, which is not always secured. However, these people can hardly imagine someone who consciously sends their own naked pictures to friends. This is called “sexting”.
I was flabbergasted because of this article. A 13-year-old girl, Wish Witsell, committed suicide because she sent a photo of her breast to a boy she likes, and the picture was disseminated in the school. The pressure eventually caused her suicide.
This is not the only example. Check this video:
The author’s attitude was suspicious. However, according to a survey, it seems like about 10% of teens has send sexy pictures and 17% of them receive “sexts”. (This result is not quite accurate because only 1,450 kids did the survey. For a more specific detail, check this article on npr.org) The author then presented “two schools of thought about how to treat sexting”, and he indicates the mistake of it, which is paying too much attention to the technological issues. He states that it would be more useful to communicate with teens and teach them to have empathy. After that, he analyzes the “convenience” that new techniques provide for cyber-bullying. Then in the next paragraphs, he focuses on the comparison of cyber-bullying and traditional bullying. In the last three paragraphs, he discusses how to deal with the problem. The question remains unsolved, but people have to come up with a solution at some point.
I agree with the author that the main solution of the problem is education. I also think the government should take more control of unhealthy materials’ dissemination. If people can get in serious trouble for sexting, then they would less likely to do it. Maybe this point seems kind of radical. But think of it: what is more important than the future of a teenager? Sexting can ruin the life of teens (especially girls). They cannot afford to lose their reputations, and to be seen as a “whore”. It is too much to suffer. So girls, learn to protect yourself; boys, please be moral. Always remember to make good decisions!
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lwang11 Said:
on January 23, 2010 at 4:06 am
I was in a special Ch-Ch class meeting some weeks before, in which we talked about the teenages’ strange behaviors; a great example is sexting. I dont if the following is true or not, but that’s what we got from the special meeting:
The reason why girls are sexting is because they think that’s what their boyfriends want, and those girls think they should appease their boyfriends.
Why those private nude pictures are online? We thought that’s because once the couples have a bad break-up, if the boys are immoral, or could not control his madness, he uploaded those photos.
That’s pretty unaccptable. I think Girls should sexting their boyfriends after they knew their boys well. By knowing what kind of persons those boys are, girls protected themselves.
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sabrinapan Said:
on March 7, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I agree with you that it is not all Edison’s fault in this scandal event. First of all, he didn’t mean to do that to disseminate the photos, thus he didn’t purposely set up a bad example for civilian people. Secondly, this event will heat up also because of the interests given by people in this kind of meaningless affairs. It is a waste of time to spend time discussing how a celebrity play with girls and take photos.