1 in 3 Teenagers 'bullied by Sex Texts'

4th August 2009


More than a third of 11-17 year olds say they have received distressing sexual content via text or email.
The UK's leading bullying prevention charity has released the results of research in to 'Sexting', revealing that sexualized child to child anti-social behaviour is escalating at an alarming rate.

 38% said they had received a sexually explicit or distressing text or email
70% of young people knew the sender of the message
1 in 4 received an offensive sexual image, with over half issued by a mobile phone

The results are compiled from a survey of two thousand young people to understand how technology is changing the way they're communicating and how they're manipulating digital media to bully and pressurise their peers.

For more information see http://www.beatbullying.org