The double standard is not only alive and well it is thriving:
http://time.com/2897003/teenage-girls-sexting/
If you’re asking an adolescent boy, a teenage girl is “insecure” or “slutty” if she sexts and “stuck up” or “a prude” if she doesn’t.
“The most striking finding with regard to gender was the extent to which girls, but not boys, were judged for their sexting practices,” the study says. “According to these accounts, then, girls who send sexts are—to use some of our male participants’ words—crazy, insecure, attention-seeking sluts with poor judgment.”
If flaunting our sexuality, celebrating our physical beauty, reveling in our effect on men, is so empowering why is it so disrespected?