According to Psychology Today: “Sexting” among teenagers has increasingly made news headlines, resulting in a lot of worried parents. Usually defined as sharing a sexual photo of oneself nude or nearly nude through mobile or Internet communication—sexting may actually be less common than most people think. In fact, national surveys suggest that only a small minority—between 3 to 7 percent—of teens are sexting. One reason may be because one salacious incident can easily seize the attention of all students in a school. For instance, even if only 5 percent of youth are sexting at your child’s high school, this translates to one in 20 students—almost one student in every class and more than enough to keep the rumor mill running. Another reason may be because the media can sometimes give us the impression that, instead of being an outlier, one small story is reflective of what’s going on in the "real world". You may have heard an alarming statistic that 40 to 53 percent of teens are sexting. It turns out that these data are from a small regional study with only 35 students from two inner-city schools in London. Additionally, this study defined sexting to include behaviors such as requesting or even harassing others for suggestive photos and distributing the photos to others without the consent of the person in them, among other behaviors. This greatly widens the definition of sexting and would thus make it seem like a large fraction of the interviewed students might engage in one particular behavior. Despite all of this, the media portrayed the study’s results as a bellwether for teen life today. Age is another factor influencing the reported percentage of youth who are sexting. For instance, the Teen Health and Technology study found that sexting increases with age: 17-year-old girls are almost twice as likely to sext as 15-year-old girls and more than three times as likely as 14-year-old girls. Similarly, the MTV study found that young adults (19 percent) are much more likely to sext than teens (7 percent). Including youth as old as 24 years old may be why the MTV study concluded that as many as 15 percent of young people have sent nude photos or videos. However, the MTV finding for teen sexting (7 percent) is much closer to findings from national studies (3 to 7 percent). So, the good news is: few children under the age of 18 seem to be sexting. The vast majority are not sending or posting sexual photos of themselves. Among the few teens who are, many researchers suggest that sexting has become part of sexually curious behavior, in a world of technology-mediated adolescent development [1, 2, 3]. Furthermore, sexual curiosity exploration indicates the need for adults to have conversations with youth about healthy and unhealthy sex.