“My name is Aliya, I’m 20 years old, and I’m here to tell you about my own experiences six years ago, right here at college. I was in third grade, I was just 14 years old when it happened to me. I was cyberstalked“, begins the one who, now a student, came to testify in front of teenagers to”break a silence that kills “.
Very quickly, Aliya slips the word “nude” into her story. These naked selfies that are exchanged via smartphones as part of a romantic relationship have become more and more common among young people – but this practice is not without risks … His former college in Charente-Maritime organizes regularly prevention meetings in the presence of a sex therapist.
A reserved teenager who takes refuge on social networks
Here’s what happened to Aliya: at 14, she’s a reserved teenager who takes refuge on social media. There she meets a boy who says he is 17 and whom she will never meet. She thinks she is in love with him. He urges her to prove it … by sending her a picture of her breasts. “I was in love insists the one who has become a confident young woman, able to tell with ease, in front of a college class, a story not easy to live with. So one photo, two photos. (…) Then the videos were linked. Me masturbating, stroking my cock, things that I had never done. The more I did, the more I had to do. One might ask: ‘How did she do it? But what the fuck is she! Why is she continuing? ‘ But when you’re in love, and caught in this grip, you don’t stop.“
Intimate images sent to his entire college
At the end of five months, the young man announces to her that all this was only a game, and that he “leaves” her. The next day, he broadcasts the intimate images he has kept to all the students of the college. Warned by friends, Aliya feels helpless: “Seeing yourself in the hands of another person… It got on my nerves so much (…) that I took a compass, and I kicked myself. And again, and again, on both wrists, on my thighs. I’ve had enough. I couldn’t take it anymore. ”
But Aliya’s ordeal is not over. After the disclosure of her “nudes”, she receives many messages, the hardest of which come from other girls: “dirty whores”, “hang yourself!”, And even “It’s because of you that we beat women, let them be killed “. Today, facing the attentive looks of the college students, Aliya confides that without the friends who warned her, she would not be in front of them, “but next door, in the cemetery“Six years later, that day, she achieved her goal: to educate students about a situation that can.”happen to all“, as one boy who is aware of being part of the” Nude Generation “puts it.
Extract from “Generation Nude: when the body is worth gold”, a report to see in “Special Envoy” on December 16, 2021.
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