Oh, yeah, I love a bit of cleavage.
I'll show my friends my nudes for a laugh.
It's almost becoming a part of dating life.
Always, like, a full body, always got my face in it.
You send nudes before you even meet.
If you are fine with your nudes being sent,
be considerate of other people's. Yeah, it is just a nude.
What's the worst that's going to happen?
Sexting, to me, is like... It's a story, isn't it?
Whether that's in your underwear, or without clothes on...
It gets you ready for what may come after that.
Personally, I like it cos it's a bit spicy,
it's a bit naughty.
It's always, like, a full body, always got my face in it.
This is, kind of, just an average, topless selfie.
I guess it's like a warm-up photo to what's coming.
Growing up with these phones,
it's almost becoming a part of...dating life.
It shows that bit of trust between each other and that...
It's just that bit of fun, isn't it?
Me and my partner normally tend to send them over Snapchat.
Just because it deletes it straight after.
My nudes have been public many, many times. Do not care about it.
Oh, yeah, I love a bit of cleavage.
People are becoming a bit more desensitised to it,
so it's OK to be like, "Look, here is a photo of me."
I, personally, don't mind if my face is in it.
It's not the end of the world.
I'm not too worried
if my girlfriend's pictures got leaked, or if mine get leaked.
We haven't got anything that people haven't seen before.
Yeah, I don't think it would happen to me. I think I'm quite careful.
Hi, Craig. Hello. I'm Megan. Nice to meet you.
Um, I'm here to tell you a bit about how my sexting experience
went wrong for me. Oh, OK.
When I was at school, I was about 14, I'd just moved schools.
I started, uh, making friends
and there was a boy in the year above me, and we became
really good friends, and I built up a lot of trust with him.
And then he started asking me to send photos,
and I looked around and all my friends were doing it,
and it's kind of normal when you like someone.
I was fully naked, no clothes on whatsoever. Mm-hm.
And then he didn't reply to me for about an hour,
so I was really confused...
Right, OK. ..I didn't quite know what was going on.
After an hour, I got a picture...back on Snapchat,
and when I opened it, it was of a girl's face,
and it was a girl in my year group who had worked with him
and used his social media to coerce me into sending this photo.
That's awful.
When I went into school the next day,
my photo had been printed off on the school printer, everybody had it.
My life at school was a living hell.
I was called a whore, classed as a prostitute,
people used to make sick noises when I walked down the hall.
I started self harming. I wouldn't let myself get above seven stone.
In my head, I thought
that my body and the way I looked made people feel physically sick.
And so I tried to lose as much weight as possible.
It was just awful, it really knocked me and ruined me,
and, even to this day, I don't trust people.
Really sorry to hear that.
That must've been awful. Yeah. I know of people in, like,
similar situations from when I was back in school.
You're going through a tough time at that age as it is.
It is a risk, it's, like... There's always a risk with it.
Once you've pressed send, obviously it's gone.
Do you never, sort of, stop and think about the risks?
Or do you just...? It doesn't even cross your mind?
So...I don't think about it once it's sent,
but there has been times, like, especially when I broke up
with my ex, that I was like, "Oh, he's got these photos of me."
So it's quite interesting to see that the risk
only comes into your head, and is, really, only considered,
when you're not with that person, when that trust is, kind of, broken.
Yeah, I think I would think about it a lot more if I did it,
sort of, being single and dating.
When it gets to body confidence, it's not like
thinking you're the hottest shit.
It's kind of just accepting who you are.
And if people don't like that, that's their problem, not your own.
I don't think it's all about body confidence,
it was a lot to do with me, as well,
the fact that something that was so personal and so private,
my body, was given to other people without consent. Yeah.
You know in...that whole situation, you know, that shouldn't...
That's not YOUR fault. I don't know why you were...
I can understand, cos they're going to turn around and be like,
"Oh, well, you're underage, and you're sending photos,
"blah, blah, blah." But, I mean, you felt like you could trust someone.
Yeah. The thing I've learned from meeting you
is it's...more just being aware.
It has made me think on just being careful who you do it to.
And just more, just being aware of what could happen, erm,
and hopefully trying to prevent that.
It has really been so lovely to meet you,
and it's really brave of you to, like, come out
and make other people be aware of the risks that can happen.
And I think you're so brave, and you should be so proud
from where you were to coming here now
and battling through all the stuff that you have, like...
You're so incredible, and it's been really lovely to meet you.
Aw, thank you. Would you mind if I hugged you?