Tech voyeurism, as exemplified by the sexually explicit video clip showing two Delhi school children in a sexual act, is the new curse that afflicts teenagers these days.

"Technology has become the icing on the cake of sexuality. New-age tech gizmos have outed sexuality and promiscuity among school children and adults in a big way," tells Jitendra Nagpal, consultant psychiatrist with leading mental hospital VIMHANS.

As Nagpal points out, what's new in this genre of voyeurism is that it trades in unabashed sexual exhibitionism and narcissism through the "facilitatory medium" -- a dazzling array of new technologies like the Internet, multi-media messaging service (MMS) and camera-phones.

Using surrogate means of expressing sexuality and adding the spice of obscenity to it is what marks out this new genre of salacious thrill-seeking.

And when the whole episode got into court the furore was humongous. Blocking roads and barging into the courts, people are gathering in hundreds for the hearing of the bail plea of a 17-year-old schoolboy who is said to have shot the sex video on a mobile phone leading to enormous media attention and two arrests.

Every twist and turn in the case is being dissected and re-dissected as the hearing of the case involving the boy continues, becoming the raging topic of conversation across the city and in some places even changing cyber café laws and rent rules.

One place that has shot to limelight is the juvenile court where the case of the boy is on.

As principal magistrate Santosh Snehi Mann considers the case, the case is being discussed in lavish and intricate detail everywhere - at street corners, shops, between gossipy housewives cutting vegetables sitting on charpoys in the afternoon winter sun and giggly students, many talking about the case on mobile phones.