These included having someone make unwelcome sexual comments about them, being called gay or lesbian in a negative way, being touched in an unwelcome sexual way, being shown sexual pictures they didn’t want to see, and being the subject of unwelcome sexual rumors.
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The survey quoted one ninth-grade girl as saying she was called a whore “because I have many friends that are boys.”
A 12th-grade boy said schoolmates circulated an image showing his face attached to an animal having sex.
“I was sent a website to look up and I did and it was to a porn site. It was very upsetting to me,” a 7th-grade girl said, according to the report.
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