A Sextbook (of sorts)
Kevin Tomasura
Issue date: 2/11/10 Section: Life!
We all know the tragic truth: paper news is a dying medium. With the recent struggles locally and nationally, papers across America are going through hard times with hard copies. In an age of increasing accessibility, personal publicity and a plethora of painfully prevalent (and precipitously less clever) portmanteaux, who needs Anderson Cooper to tell us of troubles in Haiti when can hear those same twoubles through Kelly Clarkson's Twittering of benefit concerts? Who needs Rupert Murdoch when we have Mark Zuckerberg and a bunch of his friends? Who needs snail-mail in age where even AIM is becoming archaic? Who needs Ansel Adams when photography is to each his own, and own a Cybershot and Tumblr he must. And who ever needed Bill O'Reilly in the first place? But above this all, at this point, who needs me? Who requires a sex columnist to chisel his mark in ink and paper when every man, puppy and non-amish American has a cell phone stuffed in their pockets? Who wants to read something that doesn't light up, vibrate, or have an interactive koi pond upon your every beck and call? Who wants to read about someone else's sex on text when they can cleverly combine the words and just sext it themselves?! Certainly not you.
For those who don't own a TV, have an internet provider, read magazines, have friends above the age of ten or lack the coexistence of a phone and common sense, and thusly lack understanding of the intricacies or appeal of this rising trend, let me explain. Sexting, as offered by my esteemed colleagues at UrbanDictionary.com, is defined simply as "using digital technology [to send] an image, video or text message of an explicit (adult) or risque nature to another individual", defined stupidly as "where a guy (or girl) sends nude pictures of themself back and fourth, or once. Personally I think the worse that could happen is the person show someone, but that's really it. The media is making out to be something so horrible that all kids could face sexual assault charges and shit like that. Literally only a few kids are caught, and it happens day to day to a thousand teens", and defined greatly biased as, "A stupid media term, that has the entire world going insane because the media is making it out to be the worst thing in the world, but honestly no one can do any harm to it". Regardless, sexting is all the rage these days.
For those who don't own a TV, have an internet provider, read magazines, have friends above the age of ten or lack the coexistence of a phone and common sense, and thusly lack understanding of the intricacies or appeal of this rising trend, let me explain. Sexting, as offered by my esteemed colleagues at UrbanDictionary.com, is defined simply as "using digital technology [to send] an image, video or text message of an explicit (adult) or risque nature to another individual", defined stupidly as "where a guy (or girl) sends nude pictures of themself back and fourth, or once. Personally I think the worse that could happen is the person show someone, but that's really it. The media is making out to be something so horrible that all kids could face sexual assault charges and shit like that. Literally only a few kids are caught, and it happens day to day to a thousand teens", and defined greatly biased as, "A stupid media term, that has the entire world going insane because the media is making it out to be the worst thing in the world, but honestly no one can do any harm to it". Regardless, sexting is all the rage these days.