But unwanted exposure to sexual content is not always random. Perpetrators may deliberately send sexual content to test boundaries – watching how a child reacts, pushing a little further each time. What starts as an unwanted image or message can shift into pressure or requests: “Messages at that moment were like ‘Hello, hello, I’m sorry I’m insisting, how are you?’ And suddenly the messages would have photos, disgusting photos, sexual insinuation. He would say I was a b****, that I probably wanted it and things like that.” Behind this testimony is a young girl from Mexico, who described how a boy close to her age created different social media accounts to send her unwanted sexual content and harass her, demonstrating how unwanted sexual content may be used as part of an ongoing pattern of abuse. These experiences can involve strangers children meet online, but more frequently they involve people children already know from their own communities, schools, friendships, or intimate relationships. Harm can emerge through ordinary interactions that gradually become sexual, intrusive and abusive. A young woman from Serbia shared how, as a child, she was repeatedly sent sexual images without warning – sometimes by people she knew and sometimes by strangers. She explained: “A boy actually, whom I knew for a long time, a really, really long time. We were talking [online] normally as friends and then he just said, ‘Since you have a boyfriend and you don’t want to be my girlfriend, I would love to be your slave’, and then he started to send me some pictures and videos from porn sites.” Through Children’s Eyes How does digital technology enable sexual exploitation and abuse? 11