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Female teens more vulnerable post 'sexting'

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ANI Washington
Last Updated : Oct 09 2014 | 10:50 AM IST

A new study has revealed that women were more likely prone and vulnerable in this situation, pre or post 'sexting.'

The study, which was conducted on students of a university in Utah to study teen behavior in regard to 'sexting' - sending and receiving explicit sexual images via cellphone and more accurately measure how frequently teens are choosing to put themselves at risk in this fashion, found that although men and women both 'sext', there are striking differences between the sexes. Equal numbers of men and women reported that they had sent a 'sext', but significantly more men than women said they had received a 'sext' - 47.1 percent of males versus 32.1 percent of females.

It was also found that of the participants who had received a 'sext', men were significantly more likely to have forwarded the picture than were women, 24.2 percent versus 13 percent.

Don Strassberg, the lead researcher, concluded that men received and sent 'sexts' more often than women did implying that men have more positive attitudes toward casual sex than do women.

The study surveyed 1,130 undergraduate students about their experiences 'sexting' in high school. Nearly 20 percent reported they had sent a nude photo of themselves to another via cellphone and 38 percent had received such a picture. Of the number who had received a sext, nearly one in five had forwarded the picture to someone else.

The research was published online in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.

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First Published: Oct 09 2014 | 10:37 AM IST

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