There is no sexting law in Maine as of July 2022. However, the law below may be indirectly or directly implicated.
Revenge Porn Law, July 12, 2015: An Act to Prohibit the Unauthorized Dissemination of Certain Private Images
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0460&item=5&snum=127
§282. Sexual exploitation of minor
1. A person is guilty of sexual exploitation of a minor if:
A. Knowing or intending that the conduct will be photographed, the person intentionally or knowingly employs, solicits, entices, persuades or uses another person, not that person’s spouse, who has not in fact attained 16 years of age, to engage in sexually explicit conduct, except that it is not a violation of this paragraph if the other person is 14 or 15 years of age and the person is less than 5 years older than the other person. Violation of this paragraph is a Class B crime; [PL 2015, c. 394, §1 (AMD).]
A-1. Knowing or intending that the conduct will be photographed, the person intentionally or knowingly compels or induces by any threat another person, not that person’s spouse, who is in fact a minor, to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Violation of this paragraph is a Class B crime; [PL 2015, c. 394, §1 (NEW).]
B. The person violates paragraph A or A-1 and, at the time of the offense, the person has one or more prior convictions under this section or for engaging in substantially similar conduct to that contained in this section in another jurisdiction. Violation of this paragraph is a Class A crime; [PL 2015, c. 394, §1 (AMD).]
C. The person violates paragraph A or A-1 and the minor has not in fact attained 12 years of age. Violation of this paragraph is a Class A crime; [PL 2015, c. 394, §1 (AMD).]
D. Being a parent, legal guardian or other person having care or custody of another person who has not in fact attained 16 years of age, that person knowingly or intentionally permits that person who has not in fact attained 16 years of age to engage in sexually explicit conduct, knowing or intending that the conduct will be photographed. Violation of this paragraph is a Class B crime; [PL 2015, c. 394, §1 (AMD).]
E. The person violates paragraph D and, at the time of the offense, the person has one or more prior convictions under this section or for engaging in substantially similar conduct to that contained in this section in another jurisdiction. Violation of this paragraph is a Class A crime; or [PL 2007, c. 476, §5 (AMD).]
F. The person violates paragraph D and the minor has not in fact attained 12 years of age. Violation of this paragraph is a Class A crime. [PL 2003, c. 711, Pt. B, §12 (NEW).]
