Images across Europe: The sending and receiving of sexual images and associations with interpersonal violence in young people's relationships

By M. Wood, C. Barter, N. Stanley, Nadia Aghtaie, C. Larkins. 2015

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This article explores young people's experiences of sending and receiving sexual images and text messages (sexting) within their interpersonal relationships and the contexts in which this occurs. The article uses data from a recent Daphne funded project ‘Safeguarding teenagers' intimate relationships’ (STIR) involving a survey with 4564 young people aged between 14 and 17 in a number of schools across five countries in Europe. Findings reveal that experiences of sexting vary by country and gender. The study also found that young people who reported victimisation in their relationships were more likely to have sent a sext message than those who had not. The article points to the need for a more nuanced understanding of the varied contexts and experiences around sexting in order to better develop policy, practice and education in this area.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Gender Studies

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Citations in the corpus

• A systematic review of the current knowledge regarding revenge pornography and non-consensual sharing of sexually explicit media (2017, background): “, 2014) to 30% for males and 18% for females (did you share the message [received from partner/ex-partner] with anyone else, ever) (Wood et al., 2015; Stanley et al., 2016).”
• Young People’s Online and Face-to-Face Experiences of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse and Their Subjective Impact Across Five European Countries (2017, methodology): “For previous publications from this study, we examined both online and offline sexual forms of intimate violence (Stanley et al., 2016; Wood et al., 2015), and we sought to build on this analysis though examining wider aspects of adolescent IPVA experiences.”
• Image-based sexual abuse: Victims and perpetrators (2019, background): “In another English study, Wood et al. (2015) found that over a quarter of the female participants who had sent a sexual image had been pressured by a partner to do so, and almost half had sent the image to prove their commitment.”