Further some girls ask for penis images but can face sexual stigma and shame for doing so because of sexual double standards.
In some cases, receiving unsolicited dick pics has become understood as a badge of desire. We also consider how not all uninvited dick pics are viewed negatively. We investigate how and why unwanted receipt of dick pics from known boys at school can create very difficult dynamics for girls to navigate and the challenges they face in reporting these images. These include faceless, fake and accidental dick pics as well images from "friends of friends" or peers known only online. Next, we look at a range of practices when dick pics are sent from networked peers in the girls’ age range. We start by exploring the receiving of unwanted dick pics from predatory older men on Snapchat, which we argue normalizes this content but also has features of being unknown and random and therefore relatively easy to ignore or block. We focus in depth on adolescent girls’ experiences and understandings of receiving dick pics, as there has been limited research on this age group (Madigan et al., 2018). In this paper, we explore girls’ experiences of receiving dick pics across seven diverse secondary schools in the UK.
Now, a decade later, it appears that the central shift that has occurred in the relational dynamics of youth sexting is the normalisation of the dick pic in the social media ecosystems of young people (Ricciardelli & Adorjan, 2018). They did appear when boys could capture evidence of "blow jobs" for instance, but the practice of randomly sending one’s penis uninvited (colloquially known as sending a dick pic) was still relatively rare in the research data collected in 2011 (Ringrose et al., 2012). We did not however spend much time discussing nude images sent by boys as they featured less in the findings. We found that the images were valuable to boys as currency because they denoted ownership over girls’ bodies (Ringrose & Harvey, 2015) thus rendering girls’ bodies interchangeable parts to be traded (Dodge, 2020 Ringrose et al., 2013).Īt the time of that research, also speaking to young people of secondary school age, we explored pressure upon boys to ask girls for sexual images (Ringrose et al., 2013), and then to prove they had garnered these by showing and sharing them as a part of a "homosocial reward" dynamic in which status correlated with heteronormative masculine sexuality (Ringrose & Harvey, 2015, p. Through further research with a range of international collaborators we also sought to deconstruct a misogynistic shaming and victim-blaming dynamic in school sexting education cultures and teaching resources like anti-sexting films (Dobson & Ringrose, 2016) by pinpointing and illuminating the deeply sexist social exchange logics behind the images. The research sought to explore the gendered discourses, logics, and rationales behind young people’s practices of networked sexual image exchange particularly how normative and gender binary ideals of femininity and masculinity led to pressures for girls to produce and share sexual images of themselves, much more than boys (see also Setty, 2019a). ( 2012) conducted one of the first qualitative studies on youth sexting in the UK. Finally we explore how some girls challenge abusive elements of toxic masculinity in the drawing sessions and our conclusion argues that unwanted dick pics should always be understood as forms of image based sexual harassment. We also found that due to sexual double standards girls were not able to leverage dick pics for status in the same way boys can use girls’ nudes as social currency, since girls faced the possibility of being shamed for being known recipients of dick pics. We argue that being bombarded with unwanted dick pics on social media platforms like Snapchat normalises harassing practices as signs of desirability and popularity for girls, but suggest that being sent unsolicited dick pics from boys at school is more difficult for girls to manage or report than ignoring or blocking random older senders. To address this gap we draw upon our findings from a qualitative study using focus group interviews and arts based drawing methods to explore social media image sharing practices with 144 young people aged 11–18 in seven secondary schools in England. However, to date there has been limited research that has explored teen girls’ experiences of receiving unwanted penis images in depth. A range of important studies have recently explored adult women’s experiences of receiving unwanted dick pics (Amundsen, 2020).
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