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Today’s Bad Idea: ‘Frexting,’ The Sexts You Send Friends

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Supposedly straight women are sending intimate pictures of themselves to each other. But it’s just platonic, they keep insisting. Right.

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Photographer: Igor Balasanov

“Frexting” is a truly Frankensteinian portmanteau of “friend” and “sexting.” It’s also a term that some women are using to describe platonic sexting between groups of straight female friends.

As author Kelly Williams Brown puts it in a

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