This advice is to help parents and carers talk about, and support, 13-17 year olds with online sexual harassment. We know this age group can find this topic embarrassing or personal, but this advice aims to give you the language and confidence to approach it in a positive, calm and supportive way.
There was a girl in a photo cuddling a different boy to who she was going out with and its got sent around two different schools and everyone was screenshotting it and posted it to their stories saying ‘slut’ or ‘slag’ or ‘cheater’ or ‘she can’t keep her hands off boys lol.
Girl, 13
If everyone’s joined in then everyone needs to know that maybe this has gone too far, instead of trying to pinpoint who is that person who started it because the person that started it could have started it as a joke
Boy, 16
A friend of mine was in a seemingly healthy sexual relationship, when noticing things weren’t going okay, he decided to end it with that person. That person then retaliated in threatening my friend about sharing nude photos. I could do nothing but comfort him.
Girl, 14
It passes on, everyone has friends, those friends have friends, and it all links back. Group chats. The internet makes it such a small world.
