Relationships: Researchers uncover top 6 facts about sexual selfies

Courting lovers by sending flowers is a thing of the past for teens and adults nowadays They have found a rather sexy way to lure the object of their affection sexting ie sending nude or seminude selfies of oneself to a boyfriend girlfriend crush or casual acquaintance from smartphones This is also termed by some researchers as a sexual selfieWe look at factors that have led to this fastemerging trendRepresentational pictureSext messages and sexual selfies popular with most adultsA recent survey revealed that almost half of all adults or 47 per cent send sexy text messages or selfies to their partners And one in nine people lsquosextsrsquo their partner every day a new survey has foundBut the poll of 2000 adults conducted by mobile phone experts found that one in 10 have mistakenly texted an inappropriate message to a friend or family memberThe poll also found almost one in five phone users are risking their relationship by secretly sexting people other than their partnerGirls as young as 14 send sexy texts and selfiesA new study has shed light on how an increasing number of girls in their early teens are resorting to sexting and sending explicit selfies to their boyfriendsThe study of 14 to 15yearold girls revealed that four out of 10 did not find anything wrong in taking a topless selfieAnd one in six underage girls did not see anything inappropriate about posing fully nude for othersCeleb nude photo scandals a major reasonEmbarrassing and cautionary tales of celebrities caught in sexting and nude photo scandals are not dissuading the general public from such irrational behaviour a new report has revealedAccording to the report 43 percent of respondents to an Internet survey of 1500 women between the ages of 1840 admitted to sexting which is the sending of sexually explicit text or email messagesGiven that so many stars like Scarlett Johansson Jennifer Lawrence Blake Lively Vanessa Hudgens Miley Cyrus Lily Allen Khloe Kardashian and many others have been involved in sexting scandals in recent times have those stars made it seem okay to be sending nude photos and sexually explicit messagesSexting termed worst technology jargonThe term lsquosextingrsquo has been chosen as the most irritating phrase to enter lexicons in recent years However selfie as a term has been appreciated and even included in daytoday conversationA UK tech magazine which conducted the poll a few years ago awarded lsquosextingrsquo its lsquoUnspeakable Awardrsquo for the worst new piece of technology jargonSexting teens are not offendersAccording to experts to consider labeling a teen a sex offender because of a sexting incident a label that will stick for life defies common senseA Canadian researcher presented a paper on childrens sexuality defending the practice as a modern variation on playing doctor or spinthebottleThe expert argued that such online activities are safer than traditional sexual games because there is no immediate physical contact and thus are less likely to lead to pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseasesIts not the same as facetoface sexual relationshipsThe way people get involved in and develop sexual relationships with others has changed dramatically over the last 20 years due to the increased availability of devices such as computers video cams and cell phonesBut at the end of the day there is no substitute for physical facetoface contact in our sexual relationships according to a new study