Fifteen percent of US teenagers aged 12 to 17 who own mobile phones have received nude or nearly nude images of someone they know, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

本周二公布的一项调查显示，美国年龄在12岁至17岁之间有手机的青少年中，有15%的人曾收到过他们所认识的人的全裸或近乎全裸的照片。

Only four percent of mobile phone-owning teens in that age group have sent sexually suggestive pictures of themselves, a practice known as "sexting," according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

据皮尤调查中心的“互联网和美国生活项目”的数据显示，在这一年龄段拥有手机的青少年中，有4%的人曾给他人发送过自己的带有性暗示的照片。这一行为被称为“发性短信（sexting）”。

The Pew survey found that girls and boys were equally as likely to have sent a suggestive picture to another person and older teenagers were more likely to have engaged in "sexting."

这项皮尤调查发现，女孩和男孩给他人发送性短信的可能性均等，年龄较大的青少年发性短信的可能性更大。

 
（图为美青少年在使用 iPhone 接收 twitter 信息）

Eight percent of 17-year-olds with mobile phones have sent a sexually provocative image by text and 30 percent have received a nude or nearly nude image on their phone.

在17岁有手机的青少年中，有8%的人曾通过短信发送过带有性挑逗意味的图片，30%的人曾收到过别人发送的全裸或近乎全裸的照片。

Only four percent of 12-year-olds have sent suggestive images of themselves.

在12岁的青少年中，只有4%的人曾发送过自己的带有性暗示意味的照片。

Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at Pew and the author of the report, said sexually suggestive images have become a form of "relationship currency" for teens.

皮尤调查中心的高级研究专家、该报告的撰写者阿曼达•伦哈特说，带有性暗示意味的照片已成为青少年之间的一种“关系媒介”。

"These images are shared as a part of or instead of sexual activity, or as a way of starting or maintaining a relationship with a significant other," she said. "And they are also passed along to friends for their entertainment value, as a joke or for fun."

她说：“这些图片作为性行为或者性行为中的一部分被分享，或者成为建立或维持与某人关系的一种方式。因为这些照片本身的‘娱乐价值’，它们还会被传给朋友，供人娱乐。”

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