As you know, sexting consists of sending or exchanging messages of a sexual nature, whether or not accompanied by erotic or pornographic photos or videos, through the use of technology (social networks, messaging applications, etc.).
Usually, this “practice” is associated with teenagers. However, adults engage in sexting far more than minors, although fewer do so after their thirties. These sexts, in a good proportion, are sent to people around them (boyfriend, spouse), and a minority to strangers or individuals met on social networks.
Sexting is said to have become an element of adolescent and young adult sexuality. Some would do it to meet their partner’s demands and out of fear of abandonment. Others would find it a mode of interaction allowing them to avoid physical sex or to spice up their relationship.
Sexting is like taking the risk of getting naked in front of a large number of people or walking around naked in the street. You have no guarantee that your photo or video will not be shared hundreds of thousands of times.
Never forget that today’s friend may be tomorrow’s enemy.
La sextorsion
When you share sexually explicit photos or videos, you could be blackmailed by someone you trust or that stranger on Facebook posing as a flirtatious young woman in her twenties. These blackmailers will ask you for money or new sexual content.
One of the strategies employed by these scammers is to trick you into believing that they have compromising images or videos of you taken while you are surfing porn sites. They can even infect your system with malware that will activate your webcam when you visit a porn site.
These blackmailers therefore have several extortion strategies, including that of getting you to do a striptease during a live chat on a dating site. Before you let yourself be seduced by this “exhilarating” experience, ask yourself the question: am I at risk of finding myself naked in front of millions of people, including my children and my family?
The demanded ransoms can range from $10 to $7000. Giving in to blackmail is the beginning of the descent into hell. If you agree to pay once, they will come back.
The consent
Section 162.1 of the Criminal Code is clear: no one may distribute, take, sell, transmit, publish or make accessible an intimate image of a person or advertise it without their consent, at the risk of being sentenced to a which could be up to five years. The principle is however simple. However, consent remains a bizarrely misunderstood concept. Strange, right?