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one phenomenally embarrassing episode'll kill 75% of this stuff, but increase the other 25% to 4x as much as before, so it'll be a net 0.

I think you're right. Also, people don't embarrass as easily than they used to. . .there aren't too many shameful things left in our culture except being wealthy

primarily girls...sending it to primarily boys. anthony in terms of economics isn't this a case of the driving force being demand? and if so, isn't this primarily a boys issue then? i mean if the boys didn't want this stuff do you think the girls would be doing it?

Demand? It's takes two to tango in a sinful world. It's primarily girls SENDING the pictures. They want to send the pictures very several complicated reasons of which a mere economic analysis is woefully inadequate to explain. Even if there was demand no one's forcing girls to dehumanize themselves. Many would argue that there isn't a demand for the daddy issues that may create the problem in the first place. . .

I'm beginning to lose even more respect for the fairer sex.

How sad.

How terrible! I feel like an old man in thinking, "This new generation is out of control!" Except, this time I'm actually right.

What I see is an explosion of hyper-competitiveness among girls, the aggressive/passive gender roles have flipped. The societal message to girls has flipped from “passively attract a guy” to “aggressively go get a guy”.

I get the guys showing off the trophy on the mantel to their peers.

I don't get the gals taking and sending the photos to begin with. Are they afraid they are going to lose the guy if they don't supply him with sexually enticing material of themselves 24/7? I doubt it. Is it to get more attention? I doubt that too.

I wonder how many of the thoroughly shocked readers of this story clicked on the links anyway, ya know, because this is a serious problem, and hey, I'd have to see some of these photos to officially validate my moral indignation.

I am far more repulsed by the fact that I think this is "hot" then by the fact that it's going on in the first place.

it's a power play on the girls part. the guys want them, the girls know it, so this is one way to weild their power. crazy, but not too surprising.

in other news, I vow that my children will never have phones, cameras, or computers that can access anything besides pbskids.org

random...i wish i had a random name so i could say the same thing. since i don't, however, i obviously am not saying so.

bob...lemme know how that works out for you. :)

Girls are so weak...

Wow. As a 19 year old girl, I'd never even heard of this until today. What are they thinking?

...as the value of personal responsibility takes another hit. Surprise, surprise.

I wonder if these girls are simply trying to let the world know that they want to be appreciated for their femininity, and this is one obvious way of making the point.

Think about it. They've been taken out of dresses and put into pants cut for a boy. Their haircuts are too often those of.... a boy. They're being encouraged to go after careers like....a boy. Dolls, motherhood, cheerleading, real dancing (the man leads), and so on are all discouraged. No gentleman calls to get to know her as a woman. Flowers? Chivalrous gestures? Dream on!

What does she have left? Just the flower of her youthful beauty.

Yes, it's a war on boys. It's also a war on girls, I think.