From: telegraph.co.uk

Children as young as 10 are ‘sexting’, says study

Schoolchildren as young as 10 are routinely having sex and sending explicit pictures of themselves to classmates, a survey has revealed.

 The findings show boys frequently send pictures of their genitals to female pupils and 12-year-old girls agree to boyfriends’ demands to send revealing snaps of themselves or be pictured carrying out sex acts.

One schoolteacher questioned said pupils are so pressured into sending naked photos to each other that they trawl the internet looking at child pornography to find suitable images.

The classroom survey was carried out by Michelle Barry, who works with 7,000 youngsters aged seven upwards as part of the Southampton Rape Crisis’ preventative education STAR project.

Ms Barry said: “I was gobsmacked when I asked a class of 13-year-olds if they had ever sent naked pictures of themselves and not a single hand did not go up.

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