Question

Amy (15 years old) and Jack (16 years old) have been dating for 5 months. Amy has future aspirations of becoming a nurse and Jack hopes to one day become a police officer. Amy recently moved to another school and is not able to see Jack as often as she would like to. Amy and Jack text each other every day to keep in touch. One day Jack sends Amy a picture of him posing with his shirt off and asks Amy to send a n*de photo of herself. Amy is worried that Jack will break up with her if she does not, after all there has been some tension in their relationship recently. Amy decides to send Jack a picture. 2 months later, Amy feels the long distance relationship is becoming too much and decides to break up with Jack. Jack is angry that Amy ended their relationship and threatens to send the n*de photo of her to his friends. The next day, Amy gets a message from one of her friends saying that her photo was sent to multiple other people. The n*de photo she sent to Jack has gone viral.

1. What affects might this have on Amy (her social life, professional aspirations, and education)?

2. What affects might this have on Jack? How might the decision to share Amy’s photo impact his future?

3. What should Jack and Amy have done differently in this situation?

Answer 1

1. The affects this might have on Amy are that it will be hard for her to aspire to become a nurse because the N*de will be on her record, her peers will most likely think less of her and her education will not be as rich as it used to be, since she is labeled as an offender.

2. Jack will most likely have the most severe affects since he was the individual who exposed the image in the first place on the internet. He could possibly go to jail, be labeled as an offender, and most likely he would not be able to become a police officer, because sharing a n*de is labeled as a crime. Sharing Amy's n*de can also affect not only his relationship with Amy after the breakup, but also his relationship with peers.

3. Amy should have considered the concequences to sending the n*de and refused to send it. If the n*de was the only thing Jack wanted she should have accepted the breakup was the only option in this senario because it can protect herself from the potential dangers of sending it and how it could have impacted her future. Jack should have never posted it online, and he should have considered the potential concequences. Because it went viral, everyone will label Jack to be the person who posts n*des and it can affect his life in almost every aspect, making the situation hard to dodge.

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