When teens live in a hypersexualised world


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  • Sunday, 28 Jun 2020

WHILE researching background for an article I was working on earlier this month, I stumbled on several teenage girls' Twitter accounts in Singapore.

At least 15 of them claimed that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted in recent years. Not all of them made police reports. Many said they found the courage to speak up after they saw friends and acquaintances do the same.

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