While social media has brought a lot of advantages along with it including increased connectivity and the like, it has also enabled certain individuals to reveal their less than humane mindset with all things having been considered and taken into account. A recent report has revealed that around 75% of surveyed women online have suffered through some form of cyberflashing which is a term that’s used to describe receiving sexual images online without one’s consent having been obtained beforehand.
With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that the study that revealed this was looking primarily at women between the ages of 11 and 18, something that indicates that teenagers might not be as safe online as we had initially thought. This is concerning because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up harming these young women and causing long lasting trauma, and what’s somewhat odd is that over half of the underage girls that received these types of unwanted images reported them to the authorities or even to their parents.
This study was conducted by the University College London, and it uncovered that the primary motive for about a third of women not reporting cyberflashing is that they don’t think that there would be any good that could come of that. It’s clear that a lot of work needs to be done in order to ensure that young women in particular can feel safe online.
With the rise of social media and the rather low age at which children can make social media accounts, it has now become more essential than ever to protect children from sexual abuse. Cyberflashing is one of the most pervasive forms of child sexual abuse that is occurring, and it’s high time that social media platforms take steps to curb it.
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With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that the study that revealed this was looking primarily at women between the ages of 11 and 18, something that indicates that teenagers might not be as safe online as we had initially thought. This is concerning because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up harming these young women and causing long lasting trauma, and what’s somewhat odd is that over half of the underage girls that received these types of unwanted images reported them to the authorities or even to their parents.
This study was conducted by the University College London, and it uncovered that the primary motive for about a third of women not reporting cyberflashing is that they don’t think that there would be any good that could come of that. It’s clear that a lot of work needs to be done in order to ensure that young women in particular can feel safe online.
With the rise of social media and the rather low age at which children can make social media accounts, it has now become more essential than ever to protect children from sexual abuse. Cyberflashing is one of the most pervasive forms of child sexual abuse that is occurring, and it’s high time that social media platforms take steps to curb it.
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