Mostly silent these days, they sometimes pop into my thoughts; the near-faceless memories of long-ago horrors which started as bullying and ended up closer to actual crime. Other days it was a hand up my skirt as I walked past, or a bear-hug from behind, thrusting against me as I stood in line for class. In the same week that the prime suspect in the Sarah Everard murder pleads guilty to rape and kidnapping, it is both enraging and deeply depressing that we are still debating the role of girls in their own harm. Protect them from what exactly? The lecherous gaze of five-year-old boys who still think girls are icky, but have been so awestruck by a split-second flash of Peppa Pig underwear they are now forever corrupted? Or perhaps we are protecting them from their own illicit nature; after all, it is well documented by everyone from Revelations to Nabokov that women are the cause of their own downfall. By insisting that girls as young as four are at risk from the male gaze, we are letting down our daughters but also underselling our sons. If the patriarchy is to be believed, then the bodies of boys are a machine run by a wild animal — working to perfection with the implicit understanding they have instincts they cannot control.
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Netsafe and the Classification Office of New Zealand have launched a new campaign, Bare Facts, addressing the risks of young people sending nude imagery. Sharing nude photos is part of everyday life for many young people - with research finding almost four in 10 teens know someone who has shared naked photos or videos. That research, by internet safety organisation Netsafe, also found that three in 10 teens were aware of another young person who had received content they did not request. And while sending naked images or videos is a reality for many youth, more needs to be done to help them understand the risks surrounding sending nudes, such as them being distributed in ways the sender didn't intend for. Netsafe and the Classification Office of New Zealand have launched a new campaign, Bare Facts, to teach young people and their families about what happens to intimate images once they leave their phone and why consent is important.
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Long before bombshell allegations of federal sex trafficking rocked the political world this week, Rep. Matt Gaetz 's rumored sexual conduct was already a source of controversy. When Gaetz was a young state lawmaker in the Florida House of Representatives, he allegedly participated in a competition with fellow male lawmakers to earn points for their sexual conquests, the Business Insider reported Friday. Having sex with married lawmakers and spending the night in a college sorority house earned the lawmakers extra points. And the ultimate prize was sleeping with one particular conservative woman, they dubbed the "snitch," in a nod to the "Harry Potter" game of Quidditch, a Republican who worked with Gaetz in the s revealed in an interview with the Insider. The sex competition in Tallahassee has been alleged before by Chris Latvala, a Republican state representative. During a Twitter feud with his former colleague, Latvala said Gaetz "created a game where members of the FL House got 'points' for sleeping with aides, interns, lobbyists, and married legislators.
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