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    What I learned when naked pictures of me were leaked online | Sophia Ankel

    When I sent intimate photos to a boyfriend, I never imagined the fallout. Sadly, my experience is increasingly common• This article has won the 2018 Hugo Young Award, which champions political opinion writing among UK postgraduate journalism students
    by Sophia Ankel Mar 22, 2018 3 minutes
    ‘It is hard to describe my feelings in the moment I found out that boys were showing my pictures around my old school.’ Photograph: DPA Picture Alliance/Alamy Stock Photo

    Three years ago, nude pictures of me made the rounds online. There were two and they had been taken in my bathroom several months earlier. One showed my stomach and my bare chest and the other was a long mirror shot of me topless, with my face on full display. I was even smiling – a gesture made for the eyes of my then long-distance boyfriend, to whom I had sent them via Facebook.

    When you’re a teenager, it’s common to hear stories about other girls discovering their naked pictures on porn sites

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