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Sharing intimate images without consent is now a criminal offence in many jurisdictions. Much of the guidance given to young women still frames it as a consequence of their own decisions.
The measurable cost of sustained harassment is time — blocking, reporting, documenting, adjusting behaviour. That cost falls unevenly and is almost never counted.
Withdrawal is presented as a costless solution. For most adolescents it means losing access to the primary infrastructure of their social life.
Configuration controls who sees content. It does not address the people who already have access, which is where most harm originates.
Synthetic intimate images require no cooperation from the subject. That breaks the assumption underlying almost all existing school guidance.
Family tracking is now normal. The research on its effects is thinner than its adoption, and the findings on adolescent monitoring generally are not encouraging.