Sexting Now Almost Commonplace

Q1: Adult sexting is perfectly legal, as it is the sharing of sexually explicit content between tewo consenting adults. But what about teen sexting, should that be legal? If a 16-year-old boy sends a sext to his 16-year-old partner, should that be xonsidered child pornography? Why or why not?

Adult sexting is not legal in some country as this involves morality issue. However, teen sexting is definitely not allow as teenage or children are not mature to know what they are doing and what is the risk behind sexting. They have a lot of imagination about sex but they are lack of the knowledge. If teen sexting is allowed, there might have certain people hunting teenage for sexting and might even cheat for having real sex with the teenage people. This will cause a lot of society problem.

Q2: If you refer back to Figure 8.1 on page 228, where would you place adult sexting – a minor ethical violation, a serious ethical violation, or a very serious ethical violation? What circumstances – consequences, society’s opinion, likelihood of effect, time to consequences, relatedness, and reach of result – might move adult sexting from a minor ethical violation to serious ethical violation and then finally on a very serious ethical violation?

I will rate adult sexting as a minor ethical violation. This is because both adults are mature enough to decide what they wants to do and it will not harm other people. However, if the sexting is being stole and publish in public, it will move to serious ethical violation as this involve copy rights and bad intention as other people such as teenage could watch the sexting easily. Furthermore, if the sexting is containing a spyware or virus, it could become a very serious ethical violation as this could even harm other online user and stole their personal data while the person is watching the texting.

Q3: Consider the whole notion of power being tied to sexting, flirting, and cheating. From a psychological point of view why might this be true? Do some research into Tiger Woods’s troubles woth extra-marital affairs. Could his cheating be tied to his position of power? Is “power” and the temptations that go with it an excuse for such behavior?

The reason behind of having sexting, flirting, and cheating is because of greedy. People wants to have more than one partner to show the status and power. They feel proud that they can do things that others cannot do. But actually they are just greedy and not confident with themselves. Just like tiger wood, when he is having cheat, he can perform well but after the cheat being know by others, his performance become very poor. This is all because of self confident level. Temptation is one of the reason to have such behavior as people hope to know more and wanted to find fun. But as a mature adult, you should responsible to what you had done and do not use temptations as an excuse.

Q4: What role can and should employers play in limiting (perhaps eliminating) sexting in the workplace? What about employee-to-employee sexting? What about employee-to-customer sexting? Regarding the latter, what sort of legal liability does an organization have if an employee sends an unwanted and unwelcome sext to another employee or to a customer?

First, Human governments is a good idea to limiting (perhaps eliminating) sexting in the workplace. As a human, we should governs ourselves. Sexting in the workplace is very unhealthy as it could affect the working performance. Sexting in the workplace is same as having affair in work place and it could crash of interest especially between superior and subordinated. Company could also set a rule that forbidden the sexting inside work place. Besides, sexting with customer might end up become sexual harrestment to the customer and customer could have legal suit to the company and affect the company goodwill. So this also should not be allowed no matter it is agree by customer or not.

Q5: These are purely for you to answer yourself. Have you ever participated in sexting? Have you receive a sext? Has learning more about ethics and the nonprivacy of technology enabled communications reshaped your thinking about participating in quesrtionable activities like sexting?

All the answer is no and never. I have never participate in any form of sexting.