Sexting Teens More Likely to be Sexually Active

Young teens who send sex texts are 6 times more likely to be sexually active and talk about it, a team of researchers have found. USC researchers, who defined 'sext' in their survey as a sexually suggestive text or photo, have provided a new understanding of the relationship between "sexting" and sexual behavior in early adolescence, contributing to an ongoing national conversation about whether sexually explicit text messaging is a risk behavior or just a technologically-enabled ...