How does digital technology enable sexual exploitation and abuse? Unwanted exposure to sexual content For some children, it happens just once. For others, it keeps happening. Over time, repeated unwanted exposure to sexual content can start to feel normal, even though it isn’t. It can occur at random, appearing unexpectedly, through unsolicited messages or calls on social media platforms. A young woman from Brazil shared how she received a call from an unknown number when she was 16 years old: An estimated 15 million children were exposed to sexual content they did not want to see in just one year. Through Children’s Eyes “When I answered, there was a guy, he wasn’t showing his face, he was just showing his parts, he was m*****b***** and asking me to show my chest, that kind of thing. So, I went and hung up. He kept texting me, but when I answered, he kept saying, ‘Oh, don’t tell your mother. No, no, don’t say anything to your mother.’ And to this day I don’t know who did it, you know?” How does digital technology enable sexual exploitation and abuse? 10