Youve done it. We all have. The suggestive text-message, the clever pun:
Q: How to you like your coffee?
A: Hot and black.
Come on. You know its silly. You know youre being bad. Most of the time its harmless, right? But sometimes sometimes it enters sexting territory.
Sexting is nothing new. Its been going on for as long as thumbs have been text-messaging. It was a natural evolution from cyber-sexing, that fetish of old that enabled fifty-year-old men to get sexy with twelve-year-old girls. But, in the same way that cyber-sexing opened up a realm of (sometimes dangerous) possibilities via the Inernet and thus influenced the direction of our sexual evolution, sexting has revolutionized the way we foreplay and, even in some cases, go about the whole love-making process.
But sexting is something that Ive rarely heard discussed openly. And this is surprising, considering that my friends, at least, seldom find any topic inappropriate for public conversation. I decided it was time to open the panel for discussion, and being that the topic at hand is text-messaging, what better venue can there be than a cell phone, right? With that in mind, I texted the following question to fifteen of my friends this morning:
What are your thoughts on sexting?
Following are the eleven responses I received: