Sexting game making 'Rounds' at local middle school

[proud2BlibKansan]

LIBERTY, Mo. - There's a new game of chicken making the rounds in the halls of at least two local middle schools. It is growing in popularity and bringing sexting to a new, frightening level.

The game is called Rounds and Officer Heather Massey said she has already found two cases this school year in Liberty's middle schools.

Massey explained how students are playing the game. "Round one is I take a picture of myself with part of my clothing off and I send it to you through my cell phone," she said. "Then you take a picture of yourself with even less clothing on and you send it to me on my cell phone. Then I take a picture with even less than you had on and we play this until somebody chickens out."

Maybe the most disturbing, Massey said, is how far students take the game. "Every time I have come across this game, I've never had a kid that's chickened out until they were completely naked."

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[ret5hd]

1. So, occifer messy, how many kids you busted for child pornography?

or are you admitting you know of a crime but did nothing about it?
or are you over-dramatizing something you heard a friend saying a friend told them?

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I have those same thoughts.

Hmmm.

[Peregrine]

8. No, it really happens

I am a middle school teacher, and this is a frequent occurrence. One girl and texted a picture of herself in panties with another girl with her mouth firmly planted on the other's crotch. The picture was sent to five boys. The picture was turned over to the dept of children and family. Prosecutor decided not to prosecute.

Last Wednesday was crotch grab day. Boys scored points for grabbing a girl's crotch ... Another time was nipple twisting.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. We had a big hassle over those rubber band bracelets a couple years ago

I teach elementary school.

The girls were supposedly sending signals depending on which color bracelet they were wearing. Red meant she'd give oral sex, black meant intercourse, etc. We had lots and lots of little girls wearing these bracelets not realizing they were sending out signals. It was a mess.

[ret5hd]

18. so do you frequently not report child porn to the police?

or did the prosecutor prosecute the other times?

[catabryna]

3. OMG!

It's a digitized version of "Spin the Bottle" or "Strip Poker".

Run for the freakin' hills!

[d_r]

4. all both of them

....Massey said she has already found two cases....
.....
"Every time I have come across this game, I've never had a kid that's chickened out until they were completely naked."

[joeglow3]

9. 2 x 2 = 4

[d_r]

27. ok, ok

if "two cases" means two events and not two individuals - and if in both cases, both of the kids "won" the game- but you got me.

[joeglow3]

32. Your point still stands

I was just being an ass...

[Lionessa]

5. Oh NOES! Hormonal teens are acting like hormonal teens! Call the cops!

If only we were as worried about the violence they are exposed to everyday.

[joeglow3]

12. Big difference

Me and a friend did this back in 1990, we both saw each other naked, maybe talked about it and it quickly became a memory. We certainly did not take pictures of each other and pass them back and forth, risking them ending up in someone else's hands. Today, there is MUCH greater risk that it will fall into someone else's hands and a decent shot it ends up on the internet, with a bunch of pedophiles jerking their dicks off to it forever.

[Jennicut]

38. I know. Back then (the early 90's) we had no cellphones to pass this crap on.

Of course, it is still kids being kids. You do stupid stuff, even in middle school. What punishment do these kids get? Suspension perhaps?

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. I think it goes beyond normal teen behavior

I know I would be very upset if my teenager was engaged in this behavior.

[izquierdista]

16. Prepare to be upset then.

Sounds like stuff that went on when I was in jr. high. Back then, they adults blamed it on the 'Summer of Love'.

[Gold Metal Flake]

20. And so you have pictures of that? On the internet? Where the world can see them? Forever?

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. Kids passed around nude pictures of each other when you were in jr. high?

I ran in a wild crowd but we didn't do THAT.

[MineralMan]

34. Not in junior high, but they did in high school in my time 1959-63.

Polaroids. I destroyed the ones of my girl friend when we broke up. She and her friend took topless photos of each other, then gave them to their boyfriends. It wasn't something we hadn't seen before, but it was also no big deal.

[proud2BlibKansan]

42. At least they could be destroyed

The Internet makes pictures last forever.

[snooper2]

44. It used to cost a lot to get a polaroid developed

[LanternWaste]

55. Not, as a rule, on school time and school property, yes?

Not, as a rule, on school time and school property, yes? Which is, I believe, a relevant difference.

[okieinpain]

36. the violence they are exposed too, you mean the violence they do! lol.

[Brickbat]

6. "Frightening."

[Iggo]

7. Pubescent kids are playing sex games?

WHAT.THE.FUCK???????

[joeglow3]

13. And then, pedophiles are jerking off to the pictures.

Me and a friend did this back in 1990, we both saw each other naked, maybe talked about it and it quickly became a memory. We certainly did not take pictures of each other and pass them back and forth, risking them ending up in someone else's hands. Today, there is MUCH greater risk that it will fall into someone else's hands and a decent shot it ends up on the internet, with a bunch of pedophiles jerking their dicks off to it forever.

[Iggo]

23. Well shit then.

Those kids need to go to jail.

[joeglow3]

24. I did not say that.

I just pointed out the ignorance of your complacency.

[Iggo]

30. Two different issues. But you knew that.

Real classy to insult me, though. That was a nice touch.

[joeglow3]

31. You are jumping around

First, you compare this to crap teens have done for generations and pretend like it is no different.

Next, I point out the differences in how it is carried out and how the current means is MUCH more dangerous.

You then mock that claim by saying we should "throw them in jail."

I make it a point that I was merely pointing out the ignorance of thinking they are the same thing.

You finally reply by admiting they are 2 completely separete things and your original point was in fact ignorant. But, you play the victim card and go after me personally for pointing out the ignorance of the original statement in an attempt to deflect from what played out.

Doesn't work on me...

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

10. In the sixties on the Southern Calif. Coast this would be,

ho-hum, boring.
Now a camera phone, cool.

[jaysunb]

15. LOL ! Spin the bottle gone high tech ! n/t

[lynne]

17. Strip poker without the cards -

- I think most every generation of kids has had a similar game - just not so high tech.

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. But every generation hasn't had the internet

Most generations have only stories to tell. These kids have pictures. They'll be around forever.

[RB TexLa]

19. Kids playing doctor, wow these new youngins must have invented wanting to see each other naked

[trackfan]

25. +1 n/t

[XemaSab]

21. And there's rainbow parties and kids huffing jenkem!

[XemaSab]

22. And jelly bracelets, for God's sake!

http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp

[trackfan]

26. Dog bites man.

Big deal. Meh.

[MineralMan]

33. Parents: Give your kids cell phones without cameras!

Then, they'll have to expose themselves to their friends the old fashioned way, like they did when I was a teen.

My cell phone has no camera. It's cheap, works well, is very durable, and I can even text with it. It would be a perfect phone for a middle-schooler. Later, when they grow into some sense, give them a better phone. You're the ones paying for it, so you get to choose the phone and the service.

Problem solves, for pete's sake!

[HappyMe]

35. That makes too much sense.

I'll go one better and say that when they can pay for their own phone and the accompanying bill, they can have all the bells & whistles they want.

[MineralMan]

37. One of my wife's cousins gave her daughter a cell phone when she started

high school. It was just such a simple, no-camera phone. You could text on it, using the number pad. It was a prepaid Tracfone, and the kid had to ask Mom for minutes when she used them up. The kid pitched a fit over not getting a "cool" phone. So, Mom took it back and told the daughter that she could have it back when she understood who was paying for it. An apology ensued and the kid got her plain phone back, which she used through high school. Now, she's off at college and has a smart phone. She's not abusing her phone privileges either.

If mom and dad are paying for the phone, then the choice of phone is up to them. If the kid doesn't like that particular model, the kid doesn't have to have a phone.

It's all so simple. A lot of parents have forgotten how simple it can be.

[Jennicut]

39. Yes, it is very simple. Also, some kids are getting cell phones at too young an age.

My daughter asked me for one this year at six. I was like, no freaking way. Her friend had one already. What is wrong with some parents? First grade is way too young for that. I even have my reservations of 5th, 6th, and 7th graders but that seems to be the only way some parents stay in touch with their kids. They don't even know what is going on with their kids when they can just text them.

[seabeyond]

47. 16 in our house. they know why

they get it and it is really apprciated when they do get it. my oldest not about to abuse this privilege since he just got it. friend encouraging him to party (drink). he said no fuckin way. he just got a car adn just got a phone and it would all be taken. not a chance in hell.

i like, lol

[seabeyond]

43. my kid has to pay for his text. we pay for the ring, lol.

he had to wait until 16. and it is not unlimited. so he has to be moderate.

[seabeyond]

41. i was pretty popular and knew about everyone in the 70's. i never saw it.

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and i certainly didnt play it.

skinny dipping where all stripped down as opposed to guys in a group dressed, cheering on the girls strippin, yelling boobie boobie. ya, we did that. but, didnt know of any of the guys with pictures and passing them around. AND i had a brother in my grade and a brother a year up, both really popular. one a footie footie football hero.

and yes, i know the answer. middle school is the tough years. they pretty much have it figured out by high school. but my youngest doesnt have a phone. my oldest got one at 16. the one time it even came kinda close that he got a picture that may have set off my radar, he came to me and explained how and why it happened, lol. but then, discussion on this subect had gone a long way with the boys making appropriate choices.

i told oldest a couple years ago, a GF is nice enough to give you a picture, treasure it well. never do anything inappropriate or mean with it. then, it is shame on you.

[MineralMan]

48. There was no passing around of those photos.

No way. Those photos were strictly for personal viewing. I would never have thought of showing it to anyone else.

There was some group skinny-dipping, too, at a swimming hole near the town where I grew up. It was a giggle for everyone. A bunch of kids would go to that swimming hole, and it was guaranteed that someone would suggest skinny-dipping. Just about everyone would do it, but there were always a couple of kids who wouldn't. They went swimming, too, usually in their undies. No big deal.

[seabeyond]

50. that is the difference from then and now.... that i think parents today address.

there is the healthy sexual journey a teen takes that we all remember and want nothing less for our kids. and then there is todays world where the kids sexual journey is mired in the adult sex world. that is not healthy.

i want my kids to have the BEST sex life. booyah. and that means some of the play today is off limits.

i am open with my boys on this discussion so they are aware of the pitfalls.

[MineralMan]

53. Yah, some communication is required.

That seems to be missing in some families. I remember a talk my father had with me when I was about 16.

"I know that you and whatshername are fooling around. That's OK, but you need to always be thinking what would change in your life if she wound up pregnant."

'Nuff said. I did know, and did think about that. Funny thing was, her mother gave her pretty much the same talk...and some condoms.

[redqueen]

46. +1

[snooper2]

40. Why can't they go out behind the playground like we did in the late 80's

[seabeyond]

45. now, that.... happens, lol

so true. or the one parent's house that was divorced (70's) and the parent at work.

nothing left behind to hurt another.

[MineralMan]

49. Our parents would have been shocked, I think.

I don't think they were aware at all. My mom even bought my explanation of a hickey on my neck once. I told her I ran into a pipe at the dairy where I worked. She told me to be more careful.

On the other hand, maybe she did know and that was her way of shrugging it off. I was more careful in the future, though. No more visible hickeys.

[seabeyond]

51. see, my smile started growing as i was reading you post, lol.

thinking, my parents were not so naive, but i know they pretended they didnt know things (like i do today iwth my boys) because it really is none of our business. being aware, of the degree that the kid is involved in, is the important thing. there may be a time to step in. otherwise, leave him alone

i know my oldest in 7th grade (13?), went on a tizzy that he doesnt get away with anything, lol. that i know everything. so he doesnt get to be bad. friends cussing out parents, sneaking out of house, slamming doors. (he didnt want to do that, but the point, lol). i told him, there will be times i will know and say nothing. and then there will be times i will call him on things. matters if a lesson is to be had or not.

[MineralMan]

52. Yes, I think that is a mark of good parenting.

You have to use a longer leash all the time on kids, until they don't need one at all. By that time, they probably don't even know that leash is still there.

That's the thing that bugs me about articles about "helicopter parents." What are they thinking? By the time the kid is old enough to go to college, all that should have been settled long ago. Yes, college kids get themselves in trouble, but they can get themselves out of most of that trouble. I even read an article a couple of years ago about parents accompanying their adult children into job interviews. Wow!

Letting kids screw up is part of parenting, it seems to me. If you don't, they won't know how to handle screwing up later.

[B Calm]

54. Back in my day it was tearing off fruit loops

from the back of shirts. . .