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I would come into school and my friends would be like, ‘oh because the username is just a load of random symbols that means that isn’t a real person.’ We were never taught that at school, we had to pick that up for ourselves.”įor children that aren’t heterosexual, the current gaps in digital sex education are even wider. “What used to be really confusing was I would never know that the bots on Snapchat weren’t a real person. “It would be like, a user called ‘Free Girl Pictures’ sends you a direct message being like, ‘do you want to make money off your body’ or something like that.” “The bots would add us on Instagram when we were younger, like around 14.” Some days, Bijou would find herself added into a group chat with around 20 other users of a similar age. “Now is not really the time to cut back on this education because now more than ever, teenagers need this.”įor 18-year-old Bijou, being harassed by bots on social media was just part and parcel of her school years. “Educating teens on digital sex education was one of the notable things that were added to the new curriculum,” says Professor Kaitlyn Regehr. This leaves sex education lagging behind the online world. In June 2020 the government announced that schools do not have to teach the new sex and relationships curriculum, due to have come into place in September, until summer 2021. “Offenders are taking advantage of increasingly lonely and vulnerable children spending more time on sites monitored by fewer human moderators to act against the harm.”Īlongside a reduction in the number of human moderators responding to online abuses thanks to the pandemic, overdue updates to the sex education curriculum have also been delayed. “Lockdown has exacerbated the risk of online grooming and sexual abuse like never before,” says Andy Burrows, head of child safety online policy the NSPCC. Girls like Bijou are living the majority of their social lives digitally, and with an increase in screen time comes a greater risk of exploitation. Since lockdown started, 25 per cent of girls say they have experienced at least one form of abuse, bullying or sexual harassment online, while reports of revenge porn doubled in April, peaking over the Easter bank holiday weekend. In the coronavirus era, empowering teenagers online has grown even more urgent.
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If you talk to most girls my age, they probably would have been sent a dick pic without asking.” Boys would return messages with a picture of their abs and say ‘streak?’ They would want you to send a naked picture back. “When we were about 15, it changed quite a lot.
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You could say to your friends, oh I have a streak with them,” she says. If you are having a conversation with someone and they continuously reply to you, that makes a streak. “How many Snapchat streaks you have is part of how popular you are. When Bijou, now 18, started secondary school, Snapchat streaks were an essential part of the social hierarchy. Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates.
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