ABSTRACT This article critically assesses the legal issues surrounding the contemporary act of adolescent sexting via the philosophical methodology of ontology. Through this methodology the article aims to highlight the significance of the mobile phone, and the social objects which it produces in the world, pertaining to the act of sexting. Highlighting this device’s abilities, uses, and present-day ubiquity offers an alternate insight to both the current legislative parameters and legal commentary on sexting. This is because neither the law governing sexting, nor the majority of the legal commentary on this act, has engaged with the presence of the mobile phone in our contemporary world and the way it has revolutionised our lives. In order to offer an alternative lens through which to view this act, the article draws on the deconstructive work of Jacques Derrida and the new realist ontology of Maurizio Ferraris, to offer comment on how and why digital writing must be reckoned with in the twenty-first century. Using these theorists, and others, the article illustrates the importance of the mobile phone and how its role as the quintessential writing machine of the third millennium must be recognised in order to correctly legislate the act of adolescent sexting.

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色情短信犯罪：一种解构方法

摘要 本文通过本体论的哲学方法论批判性地评估了围绕当代青少年色情行为的法律问题。通过这种方法，本文旨在强调手机的重要性，以及它在世界上产生的与色情短信行为有关的社会对象。突出该设备的功能、用途和当今的普遍性，为当前的立法参数和关于色情短信的法律评论提供了另一种见解。这是因为无论是管辖性短信的法律，还是对该行为的大多数法律评论，都没有涉及移动电话在我们当代世界的存在及其彻底改变我们生活的方式。为了提供另一种视角来观察这一行为，这篇文章借鉴了 Jacques Derrida 的解构主义作品和 Maurizio Ferraris 的新现实主义本体论，评论了 21 世纪必须如何以及为什么必须考虑数字写作。这篇文章利用这些理论家和其他人，说明了手机的重要性，以及必须如何承认手机作为第三个千年的典型写作机器的作用，才能正确地立法对青少年色情短信行为进行立法。