“When Rusty McGuire travels to Virginia schools to talk to teenagers about the dangers of social media, he asks all of the girls in the audience to close their eyes. Then, he speaks plainly with the guys in the room. “Boys,” he says, “if you received a picture from your girlfriend that was nude, would you share it with your friends?” When the boys inevitably erupt into giggles, he instructs the girls to look around. “This is why you don’t send nude pictures,” he tells the girls. “These boys,” he says, “their frontal lobes aren’t fully developed yet.”
McGuire is the top prosecutor in Louisa County, a rural central Virginia community of 30,000 that McGuire affectionately calls “the middle of nowhere.” This month, the county gained a national profile after a local parent caught a glimpse of sexual photos on her daughter’s Instagram account and alerted authorities.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz break it down.
*Read more here from Amanda Hess / Slate:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/04/14/virginia_sexting_ring_louisa_county_deals_with_teen_sexting_in_the_schools.html