Sexting is all over the news lately. From high schoolers to sitting U.S. Congressmen, anyone with a data connection seems to have tried it at least once.
While 3G certainly hasn't made our species any more chaste, it'd be difficult to prove that it's made us any more sexually active either. Our methods may have changed, but humans have been sending each other dirty messages for literally thousands of years. And current celebrities aren't the first notables to have been caught in the act, either -- even famed Irish poet and novelist James Joyce was known to send a few kinky messages now and then.
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So, are we really that surprised to hear that higher percentages of teens are sexting every year? Are they really doing anything different than the generations that preceded them? This brief history proves that they're merely bringing a longstanding tradition into the digital age.
Let us know what you think about the "sexting epidemic" in the comments below.