HDF 304 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Jenna Wortham, Sexting, 4Chan

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Human Development and Family Sciences
• Course: HDF 304
• Professor: M Gleason

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Chapter 6: old issues, new forms: sexting, cheating, snooping, and breaking up. The advent of smartphones and the internet means that our romantic lives now inhabit two worlds: the real world and our phone world. Of all the changes in modern romance brought on by the phone world, the most radical has come in the form of sexting; the sharing of explicit sexual images through digital media. Between the 1970s and mid-1990s, polaroid and low-cost video cameras allowed people to produce sexual content on their own and keep it private. The key difference is ease of use and distribution. I(cid:374) the past, (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) safel(cid:455) assu(cid:373)e that (cid:373)ost (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)e(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t (cid:373)aili(cid:374)g pola(cid:396)oids o(cid:396) their pensises to girls they met at bars. E(cid:454)ti(cid:374)g is(cid:374)"t (cid:395)uite the (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:271)ut it"s getti(cid:374)g the(cid:396)e. Why do people sext: to share intimacy with a partner, to build sexual attraction, to appease a partner, to maintain intimacy over long distances.