Unsolicited Dick Pics: Online Sexual Harassment, Gendered Relations and Schooling

Berndtsson, Kristina Hunehäll; Odenbring, Ylva

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“…Examples of these experiences included receiving "dick pics," sex offers, "weird" invitations, links to porn sites, or odd comments in social media (see also Salerno-Ferraro et al, 2021). Their accounts aligned with the assertion of Ringrose et al (2021, p. 559) that dick pics and other forms of unsolicited sexual advances have become normalized in the social media ecosystems of young people (Berndtsson & Odenbring, 2021;Lunde & Joleby, 2021). In the public and semi-public spheres, the young women had been approached with sexual suggestions by men, had heard their appearance commented in sexually suggesting ways and had been touched without their consent (see also Aaltonen, 2017;Honkatukia & Svynarenko, 2018;Vera-Gray & Kelly, 2020).…”

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“…Earlier studies have examined victimization experiences of young women and their meanings in different contexts, including schools (Aaltonen, 2017;Berndtsson & Odenbring, 2021;Lahelma, 2002Lahelma, , 2021Ringrose et al, 2021), consequences of harassment (Ringrose et al, 2021), coping strategies (Leaper et al, 2013;Priebe et al, 2013), male harassers (Robinson, 2005), and art-based methodologies in the articulation of harassment (Huuki et al, 2021). To complement this literature and to provide a new perspective to sexual harassment we utilize the citizenship framework to highlight and examine young people's agency and societal positions formed in relation to the phenomenon of sexual harassment.…”

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Between agency and uncertainty – Young women and men constructing citizenship through stories of sexual harassment

Honkatukia

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Journal of Social Issues

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In this article, we examine young people's narratives on sexual harassment on how it is endured, objected, observed, and negotiated in diverse everyday life environments. The article is based on an analysis of thematic interviews with 36 young people aged 15–19 living in the metropolitan area of Helsinki, Finland. Altogether 23 young women and 13 young men participated in the interviews which were conducted at educational institutions as individual, paired or group interviews. We analyze young people's narratives on sexual harassment as stories of everyday citizenship and, and more precisely, as acts of citizenship. We have also applied the concept of respectability to study how young women and men construct respectable sexual citizenship. We found out that whereas female respectability suggests that young women should be able to protect their sexual integrity effectively, male respectability expects young men to effectively balance between different positions of masculinity. While young people widely condemn sexual harassment and recognize it as discrimination, the gendered ways of constructing respectability, however, maintain the moral double standard by which young women remain the gatekeepers of sexual consent and young men test its boundaries.

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Between agency and uncertainty – Young women and men constructing citizenship through stories of sexual harassment

Honkatukia

Peltola

Aho

et al. 2022

Journal of Social Issues

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“…The phenomenon of unsolicited dick pics among young people is a topic that has aroused interest in the research field of youth sexting, though primarily as a gendered phenomenon that girls are exposed to (e.g., Barker-Clarke, 2023; Hunehäll-Berndtsson & Odenbring, 2021a, 2021b; Mishna et al, 2023; Ricciardelli & Adorjan, 2019; Ringrose et al, 2021a, 2021b; Ringrose et al, 2022; Ringrose & Regehr, 2023). In addition, researchers have argued that unsolicited dick pics should be perceived as image-based sexual harassment rather than just ‘sexting’, thus enabling people to recognize this phenomenon as a new form of sexual violence (e.g., Ringrose et al, 2022; Ringrose & Regehr, 2023).…”

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“…A case study by Hunehäll-Berndtsson and Odenbring (2021b) based on interviews with students aged 14–15 years investigated the phenomenon of dick pics in a semi-private school located in an upper-middle-class area in Sweden. The girls interviewed described the phenomenon of unsolicited dick pics as a common problem they perceived as ‘disgusting’.…”

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Contrasting Experiences: Two Case Studies on Teenage Boys’ Perceptions of Unsolicited Dick Pics and Gender Dynamics at Two Schools

Berndtsson

2023

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The present article examines teenage boys’ perceptions of the practice of sending unsolicited dick pics and gender dynamics among peers at two lower secondary schools in Sweden. Drawing on focus group interviews as well as individual and pair interviews with ninth-grade students (14–15 years) from a rural working-class area and an urban middle-class area. The study indicates that class habitus has a significant influence on the boys’ perceptions and practices. In the rural working-class school, the boys had a humorous attitude towards the practice of sending unsolicited dick pics and were not aware that unsolicited sexting could be experienced as sexual harassment. In the urban middle-class school, one the other hand, the boys clearly distanced themselves from and expressed their strong disapproval of unsolicited dick pics, mainly due to their fear of girls’ power to portray boys as sexual harassers.

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‘You don’t hear about girls sending unwanted photos, there must be a willy waiver!’ Young women’s use of humour as safety work when receiving unsolicited dick pics

Meehan

2022

Journal of Gender-Based Violence

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The internet has facilitated and exacerbated men’s intrusions through the ability to send unsolicited ‘dick pics’ (DPs) to women. To understand how young women negotiate the gendered context in which they live their digital sexual lives, the research reported here sought to explore how school-aged young women in Aotearoa New Zealand made sense of unsolicited DPs. Unsolicited DPs were strongly differentiated from wanted images, in terms of consent to receive, when/how they were received and the content of unsolicited images versus wanted images. These young women often used humour as a distancing tool, a conscious and sub-conscious form of safety work to protect themselves from men’s normalised intrusions into their lives. While unsolicited DPs were often portrayed and accepted as a joke, the impact on women was minimised yet their safety work increased. The ubiquitous, ‘always on’ nature of the internet alongside the blurring of on/offline boundaries ensured this safety work became all-encompassing as young women endured additional emotional labour to avoid being targeted or violated. It is only through conceptualising unsolicited DPs as an image-based sexual abuse that we can challenge it.

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Unsolicited Dick Pics: Online Sexual Harassment, Gendered Relations and Schooling

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Between agency and uncertainty – Young women and men constructing citizenship through stories of sexual harassment

Between agency and uncertainty – Young women and men constructing citizenship through stories of sexual harassment

Contrasting Experiences: Two Case Studies on Teenage Boys’ Perceptions of Unsolicited Dick Pics and Gender Dynamics at Two Schools

‘You don’t hear about girls sending unwanted photos, there must be a willy waiver!’ Young women’s use of humour as safety work when receiving unsolicited dick pics

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