Abstract

RODRIGUEZ-CASTRO, Yolanda; MARTINEZ-ROMAN, Rosana; ALONSO-RUIDO, Patricia  and  CARRERA-FERNANDEZ, María Victoria. Analysis of the #FirstSexualHarassment Campaign: a continuum of sexual violence. Convergencia [online]. 2021, vol.28, e14300.  Epub Mar 05, 2021. ISSN 2448-5799.  https://doi.org/10.29101/crcs.v28i0.14300.

The aim of this study is to analyze the first experience of sexual violence that women have suffered through complaint tweets in the #FirstSexualHarassment Campaign. A total of 2,887 tweets were posted with #FirstSexualHarassment for one month, of which 688 were tweets and 2,199 were retweets. In addition, an analysis of the tweets posted confirmed that the 76% of the tweets were from cases of multiple violence suffered against female under the age of 18 (65% were situations of sexual abuse of minors and 11% peer sexual harassment) and 24% to multiple violence against women adults (21.3% sexual harassment, 1.6% harassment based on sex and 1.1% sexual assault). Therefore, sexual violence is a reality that women mostly suffer. Their first experience of violence in the childhood stage. Therefore, sex education is important to prevent sexual violence.

Keywords : sexual violence; sexual abuse; sexual harassment; sexual assault.