Thank you for starting this „trend“: I was taped when I was 18 after repeatedly saying no to the guy… ever though I said no, he continued going multiple times… I was only 18 and it was the 2nd time I have had sex. I am still unsure of how people will treat me and cannot open up completely.

When I was around 13 years old the ‘Send Nudes’ craze began in my year group. It became the norm that girls phones would be overloaded with nightly messages from various boys in my year asking what underwear they were wearing, complimenting the way they looked around school and eventually inflating my ego so much that I felt like I owed them photos of me in my underwear. It was constant. Every evening, multiple different guys asking the same things.

Lucy

I first downloaded Instagram at 11 years old, we would chat to strangers online, post whatever we felt like, it was such an exciting time. I would often chat to a boy online called "Jake" who was American and 14 years old. I later found out he was 45 a woman and chatting to more than half the boys and girls in my class... Halfway through the school year our grade was told we had a "surprise" meeting in the auditorium. Our head of maths was holding this meeting. She was a loud and Strict American woman, She had the projector on with images of all of the grades social media profiles, mine included. We sat down shocked and silent. She then explained that she had made a fake profile "Jake" a 14 year old boy who liked to skateboard. Oops! She went through everyone who had accepted Jakes follow request on instagram the chats we had with him and all the information we had shared. She showed us from this information she knew where we lived and how to groom us online. We sat in this auditorium stunned and embarrassed. Although I don't know how ethical this whole project was this was over a decade ago and I still remember it to this day.

Sara

I watched porn for the first time at 12 years old. It was at a sleepover with both boys and girls there. One of the boys who had watched it before suggested we should all watch. I remember feeling disgusted and strange. I wasn't even aware of my own body I wasn't ready. The women didn't look like me and they were doing things that I did not understand. The five of us in bed screamed and shut the computer off. I felt sick what had I watched.

Years later I tried to watch porn again. I was 18 and had been sexually active from 17 years old. Porn was different at this age I could choose the category and what I found "sexy" I could learn about my own sexuality and how to express myself in a way that I had not before. I now enjoy watching porn from time to time. It taught me now that female sexuality was positive.

Amelia

There was this period where every time I kissed someone they would grab my neck within the first couple seconds and strangle me, literally in the middle of the dance floor.

It was really confusing because I felt really small but like I was meant to be okay with it because it was sexy.

Eventually I stopped kissing guys in clubs which of course isn’t a terrible thing but I found it very weird that they thought it was so normal that it was an acceptable thing to do surrounded by people.

I asked my friends I was going out with and they said that it is so standard to see in porn that they had also thought that strangling was just part of having sex when they were a teenager.

Amy