NEW YORK: More than one-quarter of teens engage in sexting and those who send explicit photos of themselves are more likely to become sexually active a year later, according to a study published on Monday.
But the study, reported in the journal Paediatrics, did not find a link between the sending of sexually explicit photos and texts with risky sexual behaviour over time.
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