And I don't believe it is a new law. I believe they have just started meeting for this secession and I have not heard of any new sexting laws being passed. Do you have a link? Sex between tow minors is technically illegal by the way. People have been prosecuted for allowing their minor children to have sex in their house. If you let your sixteen year daughter move her boyfriend into her room you can been prosecuted for facilitating statuary rape and not just in Texas. I think most states have laws that allow persecution of minors for sexting. Jersey was talking about changing their law but I don't know if they did.

If you allow teenagers to send nude pictures of each other back and forth then those pictures will end up on the internet and be viewed by non-teens. I know some of the girls I have seen when I "accidentally" went to a porn site look to be pretty damn young. You know all the pictures you can see online now of girls taking pictures of themselves in mirrors. Do you really think there is much in the way of verification of age being done by those sites?

Now after all of that I think it is a stupid treat it as a felony sex offense. Hell I think it is insane because I could go to jail for looking at pictures of girl who is only 17 even though I have no way of knowing how old she is. If you are looking a site from a country where the legal of consent is 16 but you are living in the US you could be arrested for kiddy porn. Lawmakers need to make laws to catch up to society and technology not try and hold it back.

Parental supervision not felony conviction is the way to solve this. We give children to much privacy. Phone companies need to offer parents the option of viewing in text their underage children are sending each other. Little Sally might not be so eager to send her boyfriend a picture of coochie if she knows daddy might see it as well.