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It seems new personal video technology is having unintended consequences for our culture. Answer: Without a doubt. I work with a lot of adolescents, and one of the issues we are running into is the "sexting" or text-messaging of sexually explicit materials and pictures. In a lot of ways, it's raising or heightening the sexualized nature of adolescence.

It seems new personal video technology is having unintended consequences for our culture. Answer: Without a doubt. I work with a lot of adolescents, and one of the issues we are running into is the "sexting" or text-messaging of sexually explicit materials and pictures. In a lot of ways, it's raising or heightening the sexualized nature of adolescence.

"The show features 19-year-old Ally, who was 16 when she sent a nude picture to an ex-boyfriend who said he'd get back together with her if she did so. The boy, in Ally's words, "ended up sending it to everybody in his contact list" and soon Ally's picture was all over school. Ally said she sent the photo because "having him ask me for the picture made me feel wanted again." "