Teen zone
Research has found that boys, particularly teenagers, are being pressurised into sexting to fit in

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A research has shown that teenage boys are bullied into sending and looking at explicit images on their cell phones, and face taunts, exclusion "if they’re not into" sharing pornography.

According to the preliminary results from a Melbourne University study, teenage boys feel peer pressure "to be involved in sexting to fit in" with the trend.

"Many of the boys talked about feeling pressured to either have sexy photos on their phones or to be looking at the photos on other people’s phones," the Courier Mail quoted Shelley Walker, lead author as saying.

"Young men’s masculinity was in question if they weren’t into it. Some young men talked of the silent treatment they got if they weren’t into it, or of being called ‘gay’," she stated.

Walker interviewed a small group of 33 males and females between the ages 15 and 20 and found that exposure to explicit images — of strangers or people they know, is reasonably commonplace. "All the young people interviewed had, at least one story to share, if not more". — ANI