you’ve got from porn? ASK if your partner likes the sound of them. Speed it up or slow it down? For God’s sake ASK!
In truth, your partner will be thrilled at this level of respect. You have taken their feelings and sexual desires into account. Admitting you don’t automatically know what pleases someone is honest and honesty is very sexy. The whispered phrase ‘what do you like?’ is one of the most important you will ever learn. These conversations might be a little bit awkward at first. I’ll tell you what’s more awkward though – the bit where you wee on your partner because you saw it in a porno one time and your partner cries. THAT will haunt you forever.
Sex is best when it’s ‘real’. Real sex has unflattering light, flat hair, unsightly bulges, leg cramps and squelching noises. It has laughter, red faces and bodily fluids.
PORN MAY BE MANY
THINGS, BUT IT
IS NOT ‘REAL’.
THE SEXTING GENERATION
S ince the advent of the camera phone, everyone became an overnight porn-star. No one is immune: pop-stars; premiership footballers; reality TV stars. It has almost become expected that illicit pictures and/or videos will be swapped as part of the human mating ritual.
Technology has made it too easy. That said, we ALL have to accept that doing this is monumentally stupid. We are doing something risky AND leaving evidence that can spread round to others faster than chlamydia.
TAKE THE SEXTING QUIZ:
1. Which of the following is illegal?
a. A hot 16-year-old taking nudey pics of their body
b. A hot 16-year-old putting nudey pics of their body on the web
c. A hot 16-year-old sharing nudey pics of their body around
Answer: ALL OF ’EM! That’s right. The age of consent might be 16 but ANY erotic image of a person under 18 is classed as an ‘indecent image of a child’.
2. Which of these is also illegal?
a. You taking risky pics of your super hot 16-year-old partner
b. You uploading risky pics of your super hot 16-year-old partner to the web
c. You showing your friends risky pics of your 16-year-old partner
Answer: You guessed it – all of ’em again. Same story: ‘indecent image of a child’.
3. And last but not least, which of these come with a jail sentence?
a. Looking at nudey pics of 16-year-olds on the web
b. Looking at nudey pics of people who ‘appear to be under 18’ on the web
c. Accepting nudey text pics from a 16-year-old partner
Answer: Absolutely no prizes for guessing ALL THREE. This is classed as making and possessing CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
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Think really, really hard the next time you consider sending someone a picture of your bits. One day you might want to be a politician. A family doctor. A squeaky-clean TV presenter. You probably won’t be able to do these things if ever yone’s seen your junk all over the Internet or you’ve been arrested for looking at, sharing, making or possessing child porn.
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Last and perhaps most importantly of all, even if the pictures you are taking and uploading are of yourself, you are still distributing indecent images of a child.
So you see, even if ‘everyone is doing it’ this is a really dodgy area, especially for young people such as yourself. Please don’t do it.
BAN THIS SICK FILTH
YOU, SEX AND THE LAW
I n the UK the age of consent, or age at which you are legally allowed to have sexyfuntime is 16, regardless of your sexual orientation – whether you like boys or girls. However even if you ARE 16, you can’t have sex with someone over the age of 18 if they are in a position of trust, like your teacher or doctor or something. Got that?
This kinda goes without saying, but sex with ANYONE under 16 is a) wrong and b) a crime. Even if you are over 16 and some superhot 15-year-old is well up for it and you do the deed, this is known as ‘statutory rape’ and it could see you in trouble.
Why bother with consent laws when we know there are people younger than 16 doing all the sex? They protect you. Yes, YOU. It is a
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