Sexting is sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or images, primarily between mobile phones, of oneself to others. It may also include the use of a computer or any digital device. The first published use of the term sexting was in a article in the Australian Sunday Telegraph Magazine. Sexting has become more common with the rise in camera phones and smartphones with Internet access, that can be used to send explicit photographs as well as messages.
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As many people are doing their civic duty and practicing social distancing to try to stop the spread of COVID, one side effect cannot be ignored: everyone is really horny, and seemingly getting hornier by the day. Porn viewership is up, sex toy sales are through the roof, and cam sites are doing well, too. There's an insatiable need for connection—sexual connection, specifically. It is high time for nudes.
Butts never fail, but feel free to branch out
The belief that men are more likely to get turned on by sexual images than women may be something of a fantasy, according to a study suggesting brains respond to such images the same way regardless of biological sex. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Noori and his colleagues report how they came to their conclusions by analysing the results of 61 published studies involving adults of different biological sex and sexual orientation. The subjects were shown everyday images of people as well as erotic images while they lay inside a brain-scanning machine. Noori said all participants rated the sexual images as arousing before being scanned.
This study examined the prevalence and correlates of sexting i. Sending sexy talk messages was positively related to relationship satisfaction only among those with high levels of avoidance, and sending sexually explicit pictures was related to satisfaction for men, and for women with high levels of attachment anxiety. Additionally, sending sexually explicit pictures was related to greater ambivalence among both men and women. These findings support and extend previous research with young adults. I n , Brenda Wiederhold 1 put forth a call in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking for more research on sexting among adults, as most sexting studies had focused on teens and young adults. Fast forward 4 years, and little has changed with regard to the populations targeted for sexting research. Researchers still focus on teens and young adults.
