I FAILED MY DAUGHTER
‘HE’S GOING TO TELL EVERYONE THAT I’M FRIGID, THEN NO GUY WILL EVER TEXT ME AGAIN. I’LL BE COMPLETELY ALONE’
I’M ONLY 13 years old when I press send on the first explicit photograph. The recipient is Dan, a handsome and popular boy who’s four years older than me.
The fact he’d started to text me has made me feel good but the morning after sending that first photo of myself in my underwear, I feel dirty. But I don’t want to lose Dan’s attention. I tell myself he likes me. He likes me so much he wants more photos. More explicit photos. The requests become demands and when I don’t deliver . . .
Rox ur so frigid, he writes.
Despite the clear absurdity of the word, I’m terrified of being called frigid. When Dan starts calling me frigid for not sending nudes, it genuinely hurts me. He’s been asking a lot since that first photo I sent, but I’ve always come up with excuses that got me out of sending them and kept him interested: “I’m babysitting”, “my sister is scared and is sleeping in my room” – anything.
But he isn’t buying it. Tonight he says, Rox if you don’t send any im gonna hav to tell ppl that ur super frigid.
He’s going to tell everyone in his year that I’m frigid, then it’ll spread around the school, then no guy will ever text me again. I’ll be completely alone.
Sending photos is pretty common; most people are doing it. If
