Sexting among teens and adults may increase in 2013, especially if users respond that way to Facebook’s proposed app that will allow an image or a segment of video to be viewed or shared for a time period of up to ten seconds – and supposedly, disappear from online use.

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Many teenagers, and even pre-teens as young as age ten are involved in sexting. Most of them, as well as their parents, don’t fully realize the possible consequences.

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Smartphones: millions of users are taking advantage of them for everything from calorie-tracking to productivity tools to sexting explicit images – including women in the age group likely to be moms, and men in an age group likely to be dads.

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Sexting has been the downfall of many men in power. Most recently, an Indiana pediatrician joined U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner and others in sacrificing his career and reputation for a sexting exchange, in this case with someone he thought was a teenage girl. Like the others who have gone before him, a short time later the pediatrician admitted himself for sexual addiction treatment.

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It’s the human connection through physical meetings, says a recent study, that may supersede many online-based relationships. In many cases an online or cell phone relationship is likely to progress to real-world meetings, despite a person’s intimate involvement with another partner or a spouse.

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By Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S

Congressman Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is probably receiving all kinds of advice on what to do right now. Adding to the weight of whatever decision she makes is the news that she is pregnant with the couple’s first child. While the advice given by friends and family to spouses on the wrong end of sexual addiction and/or porn addiction is often to quickly end the relationship, cut your losses and move on, experience has shown that in the early stages of such kinds of emotional trauma it is usually best for spouses to not take any actions right away.

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