Usually thought of as the domain of frustrated teens who can’t or won't physically act on their hormonal urges, this particular by-product of the ubiquitous smartphone is not just relegated to those greasy teens anymore – it’s also popular among those in adult relationships who for one reason or another don’t get to see enough of each other to feed that new-relationship hunger.

Sexting is really just a modern love letter. As a race we’re all a shitload more sexually liberated than we were when Gramps was courting and the only way to titillate a far off lover was to send a fragrant letter by post. These days you can instantly send and receive naughty pics, suggestive messages, even dirty videos. I know from personal experience that with free smugphone to smugphone multi media messaging apps these day, the sky’s the limit.

It’s staggering the amount relationships have changed in the digital age. I for one can’t even remember how I ever even saw or communicated with boyfriends 10 to 15 years ago. If we were stripped of mobile phones and the internet these days we’d lose each other for weeks on end and be reduced to walking the streets in the hope of randomly bumping in to one another. (Luckily it's really only stalkers who have to resort to this type of behaviour).

The media love sexting, mostly because it involves teenagers, and as we all know those crazy teens are just out of control.
In the course of my research (by research I mean a bit of lazy googling, barely ever beyond the first page of results, and a few dirty pics sent back and forth with a ‘friend’) not surprisingly the fifth search result was a piece from the Daily Mail, which in the first 3 paragraphs uses the phrases “provocatively”, “shockingly” “leafy suburbia” (oh god no!! surely not!!), “degrading”, “deeply alarming” and "will horrify parents”…
Ok so not that I agree with the Daily Mail (over my dead body), but I will say this; grown ups? Why not? Get your kicks (not that 'grown ups' are beyond trouble arising from sexting). Not so grown ups? Be careful, remember - you are idiots – you’re only gonna be broken up in 3 weeks with nothing left of your relationship but a bunch of dirty pics for him to show his mates and anyone else who cares (i.e. the internet, a.k.a. everyone in the whole world everywhere, ever).

God, theres so many where the hell do I start?
Prob’ly with this picture – this stylish lady is a rather fancy cyborg (cybernetic + organism – you didn't need me to tell you that).
Conjoinulations and tek go well together new gadgets and new toys need new names. It all fits.

From the very silly (i.e. Fembot) to the quite-well-accepted-as-a-serious-and-established-word (i.e. Transistor – transfer/resistor) here are a few I lovingly selected...

Now for a start, no one can resist a good display of Animatronics can they?
And where would we be without the help of Avionics (stuck in some isolated outpost of the world in my case anyway…oh wait..)

'Internet' is a hearty conjoinulation – one of either or all international/interglobal/interchanged and network. (So basically 'inter-whatever-the-hell-you-want' + network [at least we can agree on that part]).

Podcast – there seems to be some sort of joke that no one can make up an original definition/explanation of this word (iPod + Broadcast). It seems plainly obvious to me that everyone just paraphrased the Wiki.

Netiquette – we can all do with lessons on this – I’m probably breaking several rules of netiquette right this second. Fuck that shit, I make my own rules (but only when it comes to the net, and netiquette – shit! In the real world I’m a law abiding model citizen).
If I’m swearing a lot today it’s cos I’m kinda edgy, having the worst hangover ever in recent memory, and now finding myself sitting on a train heading towards Birmingham as I write this. Can you blame me?

Pixel – picture + element – this is such a cute word anyway even before you realise is a cracker conjoinulation (god, I’m a retard – I just realised I think it’s cute cos it sounds like pixie) – not sure where they got the 'x' from, but I guess otherwise it would have come out sounding too much like pickle. (“Check out my new camera – it’s full 8 megapickles” just wouldn't wash).

Ah Homer! Quite the wordsmith at times.
Here are a handful of Groening related conjoinulations:

Crisatunity: Homer (when Lisa tells him the Chinese use the same word for crisis and opportunity).

Sacrilicious: Homer talks to waffle stuck to the ceiling as if it's God "I know I shouldn't eat thee, but -- Mmm, sacrilicious."

Smelloscope: Futurama - Professor Farnsworth's device for smelling stuff way off in the vast universe. (Reminds of my old mate Carey and his constant chattering about "...in the future when we have smellovision..." - we watched a LOT of tele together, I mean a LOT).

Tomacco: Homer's accidental creation of a tomato and tobacco plant hybrid which is highly addictive but tastes like shit.
But wait - get a load of this - some freakazoid actually created a tomacco plant - no shit!

Wiki says "The world's first tomacco fruit, destroyed in the testing process, contained no nicotine. The second tomacco fruit was given to a Simpsons writer. The third was sold on eBay and the fourth was eaten by a Xerox engineer who suffered no apparent ill effects from the fruit. The Tomacco plant bore fruit until it died due to weather-related causes at the ripe age of 18 months, having spent the previous winter indoors."
A Xerox engineer, no less!