Sexting is the name given to the phenomenon that sees people sending sexually explicit images or videos to each other by means of digital devices like smartphones or tablets. While the craze is often touted as a serious issue when it comes to cyberbullying, now campaigners are shedding light on a legal grey area that sees teenagers “unfairly labelled” as sex offenders for engaging in the practice.

On this evening’s The Right Hook, George will speak to Myles Jackman, a lawyer who specialises in obscenity laws, who is mounting a campaign to clear numerous teenagers whose names have been added to sex-offender registries because it remains a crime to take and send erotic selfies if you are under the age of 18.

Tune in live at 6.20pm, or listen back to the podcasts from the show here.

Sexting is a world-wide practice, and authorities all over the globe have developed ways to try to convince peer-pressured teenagers to refrain from sending something that they may regret doing so later.

In Canada, the Ontario Provincial Police launched an app last year which offered teenagers a selection of sarcastic retorts to send to anyone requesting a sext. Send This Instead contains almost 60 “humorous and sarcastic” replies that teenagers are invited to fire off in place of a ‘dick-pic’.

While the app stands as a noble effort to quell the exposure contemporary teenagers are opening themselves to, whether or not these, to quote one Right Hook researcher, “Dad jokes” will have the desired effect remains to be seen.

Check out the app’s recommended responses in the gallery below: