On the tail of Representative Anthony Weiner's scandalous sexting is another lesser known 21-year-old, Indiana Amish man, Willard Yoder who sent more than 600 texts that included “nude pictures and videos to a 12-year-old girl, soliciting her for sex, according to CBS affiliate WKRC.” The article suggests that Mr. Weiner's recent actions were, in part responsible for Yoder’s action: a monkey-see, monkey-do parallel.

Sexting is the fastest growing crime on the internet, but didn't the internet begin with porn? Sexting has emerged because this new technical age makes social interaction via mobile phones, such as the iPod Touch that has high speed connectivity and populates the vast cyberspace in seconds. However, sexting has huge implications for both teens and Senators alike, although it is a gray area of the law. Sexting does not fit the parameters of child pornography. However, teens innocently passing suggestive photos mobile-to-mobile could fall into this gray area of child pornography, despite the fact they are children themselves. Further, those who send and those who receive these messages or suggestive photos can be charged with distribution of child pornography! There have been cases of school administrators who have intercepted sexting evidence from their students only to face charges of possession, child pornography.

Here's the big ALERT for everyone on this subject from parents to teachers and even writers on the subject of sexting: Be aware, you could be implicated without your knowledge or participation of text-sexting. Parents need to advise their iPhone toting teens about this social phenomenon. Remember, juvenile bail bonds do exist, as well as juvenile court.

To further the point about sexting and its legal implications a search for 'sexting' on Google in this case, directed the inquirer to a single webpage where the actual domain name sexting.com is for sale: what – no bidders? The webpage then states you must be 18 years or older to enter the site that warns of many explicit photos ahead, of course, you have the option of entering or exiting. After having just completed a cursory research of sexting with the implications of this word fresh on the forefront, this blogger exited the site quickly without pursuing information worthy of telling the blog readers; information such as, how does this site prove you are actually 18 years or older?

It seems the lesser educated person – even a teen viewing the webpage could be marked as a trafficker in child pornographer or better yet, an internet trafficker of pornographer, if curiosity won out and the viewer decided to enter the site. Be aware and be careful! It would be rather cavalier to say Big Brother is Watching You, but in the case of sexting, everyone is watching.

Criminal charges for child pornography have very strict parameters and the law is explicit on punishment. In the state of California sexting laws may result in state prison, as well as having stigma of a felony criminal charge attached to you forever. However, sexting in the case of teens who innocently exchange risqué photos of themselves does not quite fall into the category of child pornography, since it is not published for sale and does not show explicit sexual acts (we hope) and exposure of minors private areas that pedophiles, for instance, peruse the web for their exploitative pleasure. This is why it is termed a gray area!