Middle School Students Who Send or Receive Sexts Are More Likely to be Sexually Active

Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 30, 2014. As middle schools increasingly are dealing with sexting incidents, a new study finds that students this age who text excessively and who send and receive sexually explicit text- or photo-based messages are more likely to report being sexually active. The study, “Sexting and Sexual Behavior Among Middle School Students,” appears in the July 2014 Pediatrics (published online June 30).

Researchers looked at information gathered from 1,285 students…