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Summary Of Sexting By Peggy Orenstein

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Author Peggy Orenstein discusses how the internet, particularly social media sources, has an influence in the lives of young women. Orenstein focuses on the topic of sexting and whether it is considered freedom of expression and sexual power or cultural abuse. Sexting has been a taboo conversation point among society. They believe that it isn’t something to be discussed, just something that you should already know. Unfortunately, not educating young people about the damaging effects of sexting yields irrevocable results. In the essay, Orenstein includes a harsh statistic about sexting, which states: “…39 percent of teens had sent or posted sexually suggestive messages (or “sexts”).” (p. 450) I believe that this percentage is so high because sexting has become another way for men to objectify women.
During my time in high school, a group of boys decided to release a plethora of naked pictures of girl students to the student body. It only took a few hours for it to spread. People found the picture to be humorous and tried to guess who the picture belonged to; some of them guessed correctly. By the end of the school day, everyone knew about it, including the faculty. Some …show more content…

A more recent Miley Cyrus appears to be an advocate for this belief. She left a dent in television history when she performed on stage at the Video Music Awards in 2013. Cyrus was dressed very provocatively for some viewers which caused an immediate mixed uproar, moments after it happened. The Rolling Stone describes it as, “a hot mess” (Kroll, 2014), while CNN used quotes from other celebrities like Derek Blasberg took it better than most; "obsessed with @MileyCyrus's performance at the VMA's. It was like a karaoke party at the Playboy mansion. In the 90's. In platform sneakers." (Hare,

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