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'''{{initial|S}}exting''' is the practice of sending or posting sexually suggestive text messages and images, including nude or semi-nude photographs, via cellular phones or over the Internet <ref>Poltash, Nicole A. "Snapchat and Sexting: A Snapshot of Baring Your Bare Essentials," Richmond Journal of Law & Technology vol. 19, no. 4 (2013): p. 1-24. HeinOnline, https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/jolt19&i=654.</ref>.
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'''{{initial|S}}exting''' is the practice of sending or posting sexually suggestive text messages and images, including nude or semi-nude photographs, via cellular phones or over the Internet <ref>Poltash, Nicole A. "Snapchat and Sexting: A Snapshot of Baring Your Bare Essentials," Richmond Journal of Law & Technology vol. 19, no. 4 (2013): p. 1-24. HeinOnline, https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/jolt19&i=654.</ref>. In a study conducted in 2009 by Amanda Lenhardt, her participants identified three main contexts for sexting:<ref>Lenhart, A. 2009. Teens and sexting, Pew Internet Research, December 15, http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/Teens-and-Sexting.aspx (accessed April 30, 2010)  [Google Scholar]</ref>
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#Exchange of images solely between two romantic partners
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#Exchanges between partners that are shared with others outside the relationship
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#Exchanges between people who are not yet in a relationship, but where at least one person hopes to be.

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S
exting
is the practice of sending or posting sexually suggestive text messages and images, including nude or semi-nude photographs, via cellular phones or over the Internet [1]. In a study conducted in 2009 by Amanda Lenhardt, her participants identified three main contexts for sexting:[2]
  1. Exchange of images solely between two romantic partners
  2. Exchanges between partners that are shared with others outside the relationship
  3. Exchanges between people who are not yet in a relationship, but where at least one person hopes to be.
    1. Poltash, Nicole A. "Snapchat and Sexting: A Snapshot of Baring Your Bare Essentials," Richmond Journal of Law & Technology vol. 19, no. 4 (2013): p. 1-24. HeinOnline, https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/jolt19&i=654.
    2. Lenhart, A. 2009. Teens and sexting, Pew Internet Research, December 15, http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/Teens-and-Sexting.aspx (accessed April 30, 2010) [Google Scholar]