We need to stop blaming girls when sexts go viral

Stop judging and attacking girls for sending sexts. Instead teach boys that sharing those images is a gross betrayal of trust, immature and a form of sexual assault says Gráinne McGuinness

UCD newspaper the College Tribune published a disturbing article early this month, suggesting a closed Facebook group with up to 200 members had been set up by male students for the purpose of exchanging explicit pictures and ratings of their female classmates.

This story provoked a strong reaction, particularly online. Once again young women’s sexuality was being used as a stick to beat them with. Label them, objectify them, rate them, demean them and as a result, put them in their place. That place being to exist for the sole sexual pleasure of men.