By Amy
Norton
MONDAY,
Oct. 6, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- For some teenagers, "sexting" may be
a stepping stone to actually having sex, a new study suggests.
Past
research has found that, not surprisingly, teenagers who send and receive
sexually explicit text messages are more likely to be sexually active than
their peers who don't "sext."
But the
new findings suggest that for some kids, the sexting comes first, researchers
report in the Oct. 6 online edition of Pediatrics.
