15% of teens under 18 years old reporting that they send nudes, 27% receive them, and another 12% forward them.

An analysis of 500 accounts from 12 to 18-year-old girls about negative experiences sexting found that 2/3rds of them had been asked to provide explicit images — and that the requests often progressed from promises of affection to “anger displays, harassment and threats.”

“Less than 8% of girls shared explicit pictures because they wanted to; the rest did so because of a desire to please, acquiesce to, or avoid conflict with a boy. Moreover, while researchers found that both girls and boys send nude photos to one another, boys are nearly four times as likely to pressure girls to do so than the reverse. If the pair was already dating, the idea was often normalized with claims like ‘everyone else has a picture of their girlfriend,’ and if girls hesitated, some boys threatened consequences to the relationship.”