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"&amp;amp;#8220;Me and my boyfriend are so in love it&amp;amp;#8217;s amazing&amp;amp;#8221; begins the very provocative and very smart ad on MTV, before the camera pulls back to reveal a completely naked teenage girl, confessing her boyfriend&amp;amp;#8217;s request to have her send him a picture of herself naked. The ads, sponsored by MTV, are an attempt to educate or inform an entire new generation of teenage and tweenage girls, equipped with cell phone cameras, digital cameras and e-mail, on the subject of boys, and what complete perverts we are. Should we send sexts? Should we send naked photos to our significant others? Should we ever take them to begin with? The answers below&amp;amp;#133;Guess what they&amp;#x27;re looking at? Sure, these kids look like they&amp;#x27;re having fun--that&amp;#x27;s because teenagers are evil. If you are unmarried, or have been dating your boyfriend for a time shorter than &amp;amp;#8220;forever,&amp;amp;#8221; the answer is a clear &amp;amp;#8220;no.&amp;amp;#8221; In fact, the answer is just &amp;quot;no.&amp;quot; This is something I have some experience with. No, you cannot find pictures of me on the internet (yet), but this is something I&amp;amp;#8217;ve advised on for some time. Long before I had this blog, there was a single piece of sex/dating/love advice I felt completely confident doling out, usually to my younger sister and her college pals, but really it works across the board: &amp;amp;#8220;It doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t matter how much you love him; never let him film it.&amp;amp;#8221; Never. Just don&amp;amp;#8217;t do it. And if you have to, make sure you have the tape, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s not on his computer, and that he has no idea where it is. It will lead nowhere good, and the Internet is a big place. The question of pictures is similar, though not identical. The fact is, when we love someone, and are with them for a concerted amount of time, there tends to be a great deal of nudity, and sometimes those moments, whether intimate or innocent, get captured. The difference, and the devil, is in the details, and the detail you and I need to worry about is another D-word: digital. Ever since the Internet got bigger, the world got smaller, and everyone and your little brother owns a digital camera or camera phone; everything became instantly transferable, including pictures of your boobs (and my stuff, but let&amp;amp;#8217;s be honest, who wants to see guys&amp;amp;#8217; stuff&amp;amp;#8212;the threat is nowhere near the same). Recently, a young college-aged friend of mine, who was separated from her BF for the entire summer, and was keeping him afloat with images sent over e-mail, tried to reassure me after I&amp;amp;#8217;d dished out my signature advice by saying &amp;amp;#8220;he&amp;amp;#8217;s a sweetheart; I like own him&amp;amp;#8212;he&amp;amp;#8217;d never do anything with them.&amp;amp;#8221; And she may be right. But we&amp;amp;#8217;re all sweethearts&amp;amp;#8212;until we&amp;amp;#8217;re not. Another fact to keep on mind: the pushing of a &amp;amp;#8220;send&amp;amp;#8221; button on an e-mail takes a lot less moral twisting than the sentence &amp;amp;#8220;Hey guys, come and look at this.&amp;amp;#8221; There&amp;amp;#8217;s no simple answer here. MTV&amp;amp;#8217;s public service announcement, though smart and edgy, is probably a little late&amp;amp;#8212;addressing an issue they should have approached with their PSA&amp;amp;#8217;s and even programming, some years ago. But it&amp;amp;#8217;s not up to MTV to tell young women to be smart with their boyfriends and bodies. It&amp;amp;#8217;s up to you. What&amp;#x27;s your take on sexting? More on glamour.com The Art of The Romantic Text Message Text Message Flirting, Dos and Donts Text or Call--The Right Protocal More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Jupiter Images; model is used for illustrative purposes only"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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