Girls Are Asked For Nude Pictures By Up To 11 Boys A Night According To UK Survey

A report from England has shown that girls can be contacted by up to 11 boys a night, asking them for nude pictures.

Girls responding to a survey by Ofsted conducted in the UK have said that when boys are blocked on social media, "they just create multiple accounts to harass you".

The survey also found that nine out of 10 girls have experienced sexist name-calling or have received photos or videos with explicit content.

It has been noted that sexual harassment has become a 'norm' among children and teens who attend school.

The incidents of harassment have become so frequent in recent days that students often feel that there is no point in reporting them. The report also highlights that teachers are not aware of the scale of the problem.

Girls reported in the survey that boys "just won't take no for an answer" when asking for explicit images.

Advocates for women's rights are asking for school staff to receive proper training to be able to change the current culture.

Ministers in the UK have said that schools and colleges will be offered dedicated training days to assist staff in spotting and dealing with sexual abuse.

An investigation conducted by the BBC revealed that between 2018 and 2020, there have been reported at least 13,000 sex assaults in under-18-year-olds every year in England and Wales.

Responses to a Freedom of Information request by thirty police forces revealed that in about 2,000 of the cases, both the perpetrator and the victim were 10 years of age or under.

1,000 of the reported cases took place on school premises.

This is in line with Ofsted's findings that inappropriate sexual behaviour is 'filtering down into primary schools'.

21-year-old Cerys admits that most girls she knows have received sexually explicit images from boys or men. She said:

"When I was younger at school I received 50 or 60 on Instagram, Facebook Snapchat, images of privates that I didn't want to see. I think the first port of call is to go to your mum...you feel like 'I don't want to see that, I don't know what to do with that and no one's asked for it'. It's not very nice to receive it."

18-year-old Lucy stated that receiving nude pictures have become "so normalised" that if they turn up in message requests in their social media accounts, they "just delete it". She said:

"Some girls do get it very often but it's something you brush away because it's not something you think of that's out of the ordinary... and there's nothing you can do about it."

Lucy believes that the teachers do not know what to do about the problem.

Cerys said:

"We were told if you're going to be involved in this then the police are going to be involved. It was more of a scary assembly rather than let's get all the girls together and tell them how to emotionally deal with receiving these kinds of images."

[h/t: BBC]