Girls: don't email movies of yourself
• Sexual Health
How the web sometimes complicates the lives of teenagers - by letting them be more ruthless than they would face to face - according to the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes.
For instance, last spring, when an eighth-grade girl at Horace Mann School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, sent a digital video of herself masturbating to a male classmate on whom she had a crush, it quickly appeared on a file-sharing network that teenagers use to trade music. Hundreds of New York private school students saw the video, in which the girl's face was clearly visible, and it was available to a worldwide audience of millions.
