The local newspaper ran a piece yesterday about "sexting," mostly about how young teens seem to be taking nudes of themselves with their cell phones and sending the images to friends. And then, those friends passing them on, sometimes then running afoul of the law and being arrested for distributing child porn.
What has this to do with the War To Quash Southern Independence, you may well ask? Well, it seems as if the problme is not a new one, note the date:
Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor, Saturday, Feb. 18, 1860, page 1, col. 5 --
GIRLS, DON’T DO IT – There is a practice, quite prevalent among young ladies of the present day, which we are old fashioned enough to consider improper. We allude to their giving daguerreotypes of themselves to young men who are merely acquaintances. We consider it indelicate in the highest degree. We are astonished that any young girl should hold herself as cheap as this. With an accepted lover it is of course all right. Even in this case the likeness should be returned if the engagement should by any misunderstanding cease. If this little paragraph should meet the eye of any young girl about to give her daguerreotype to a gentleman acquaintance, let her know that the remarks made by young men when together, concerning what is perhaps on her part but a piece of ignorance or imprudence, would if she heard them, cause her cheeks to crimson with shame and anger. “Were it a sister of ours,” we have often said, with a flashing eye – were it a sister of ours! But that not being the case, we give this advice to anybody’s sister who needs it, with our best bow, and most anxious desire that she should at all times preserve her dignity and self-respect.
Shameful!
