TalkToMe.com offers lots of ways to connect with the hot girls (ladies…mistresses…) you see in the profiles. One of the newest ways is text — also known as “instant messaging.”
While plenty of perfectly innocent greetings are exchanged this way, a lot more of the messages pinging back & forth on TalkToMe.com are rather saucy. Some are downright explicit. Others come with offers, links & attachments. What is going on here?
Simply defined, sexting is exchanging sexually-charged text messages and photos electronically (usually by phone).
The experience of sexting, however, can’t be as easily summarized.
- Is sexting hooking up?
- Is sexting cheating?
- Does sexting “count”?
- What is the point of it?
Kinda feels like sexting might be a modern sort of sexual “gray zone” we each need to figure out for ourselves.
Do you sext? Would you ever sext your partner? Would you sext a stranger?
Who is sexting? What exactly happens when you “sext”?
And just how much do you know about sexting, anyway? Take our quiz, below, for fun tidbits about this very modern form of human sexual interaction.
13 Sexting Facts or Myths?
True or False:
1. Sexting was invented by in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant, Thomas Watson, who unintentionally transcribed an intimate conversation between the inventor and his mistress.
(False — although for all we know, Alexander Graham Bell could’ve been trolling for a dick pic when he uttered his iconic “Watson, come here I want to see you!”)
2. According to a 2008 study, 20% of teens (ages 13 to 20) have sent nude or semi-nude photographs electronically.
(True — even more of an eyebrow-raiser: of those teens, 18% admitted they’d sexted with “someone I just met” or “someone I don’t know”)
3. The first sext message ever sent was “Fancy a shag?” between PC’s in London in December 1992.
(False — but that’s the correct date & location for the first text message ever sent, which was “Merry Christmas”)
4. In the event of underage or criminally-offensive sexts, only the sender can be prosecuted.
(False — anyone involved in unlawful sexts can be prosecuted: sender, receiver, subject, photographer… even, in some cases, the person who supplied the locale/phone/model/etc. can be charged)
5. Sexting a minor is not a crime in Texas.
(True — however, a grown woman with more than six sex toys can be charged with a felony)
6. The word “sexting” was first coined by the British press in a 2005 article.
(True — the same year, by the way, that Stephen Colbert ‘s “truthiness” won Word of the Year by The American Dialect Society)
7. In 2013, the Academie Française officially chose the word “textopornographie” as the proper French term for sexting.
(True — although everyone still says “le sexting” anyway)
8. Of sexters who exchange sexually-explicit photos, over 50% admit to forwarding images to other users.
(False — the actual percentage is 25%. Feel better?)
9. In 2011, an Amish man in Indiana was charged with sexting minors from his horse & buggy.
(True — although reports that he was typing on an actual blackberry were found to be punchlines)
10. One in ten American seniors over 55 admit to sexting with their smartphones.
(False — actually, a recent poll of 1250+ adults ages 50 – 70 revealed that a whopping 24 percent — more like one in four! — have sent “intimate or personal photos, texts or emails.” Let’s pause for a moment to let that image sink in…)
11. The first mobile phone you could sext on was a Motorola.
(False — it was Finnish phone-maker Nokia who debuted the first mobile phone that could send text messages of any kind — and four years later, in 1997, the company also debuted the first phone with a keyboard)
12. Celebrity buzz reports David Duchovny left wife Tea Leonia after finding explicit texts from Billy Bob Thornton on her phone.
(True — not that it’s any of our beeswax)
13. “Sexting and Driving” is the name of a Michigan hardcore punk band.
(False — however, it is the name of a funny online short by Ann Arbor filmmakers TheArborMen)
