Answers to discussion questions
- According to the study, several pressures exist around sexting. Some of the central forces are generated through; cultural practices, technological affordances, social networking sites, race, and class. These factors have led to sexting, which is experienced in boys and girls. These forms of pressure not only affect teenagers, but they disrupt overall gender norms based on their daily technological-based mediated relationships. Social media sites have developed the construction of visual cyber-subjectivities that obtains its meaning by embedding itself in a more digitally public network. Another factor is gender dynamics existing on social networking sites. Sources argue out that the architecture of these cites encourages bodily and visual objections, which lead to sexting.
- Similarly, the authors claim there is the existence of double standards in sexting. The main reason as to why authors declare this particular norm is because, despite the sexting phenomenon affecting both boys and girls, girls are at a higher risk. Authors believe that girls are subjected to more chances of exploitation through sexual double standards of the old-age. Another ideology depicted is the pureness of girl’s sexuality, which is at risk of contamination via active desires but also positions female gender as being responsible for virginal body protection from male sexuality that is more aggressive and hard-wired.
- Double standards not only exists in sexting as a form of gender imparity, but it also exists in a wide variety of sensitive areas. Some of the commonly affected areas include; dating, domestic violence, sexual assault/abuse/harassment, virginity, cohabitation, and remarriage/marriage (Jozkowski et al., 239). Double standards have affected the majority of an individual’s relationships and points of view.