Classroom strip shows and sex from schoolgirls. Adolescents film each other with camera phones, swap videos and sell them on internet in Italy.

School-age children’s increasingly premature and uninhibited contact with sex involves camera phones and the internet. TV, the web, social networks and videoclips all seem to be speeding up young people’s sexual maturity. A report from Italy’s national health institute (ISS) points out that “the age of first sexual intercourse has fallen to 13-14 years”. In the mid 1970s, that age was 20-21 years. Today’s youngsters, however, often favour exhibitionism over desire, turning mobile phones into Big Brother’s watching eyes.

Italian Job : All sort of Sex and sexual behaviour in italian schools

We met Andrea, 16, who studies at a scientific secondary school in northern Italy. Andrea showed off his videos to our cameras with a touch of pride. He told us that he took some clips himself and then swapped them with other teenagers. Once upon a time, it was football cards but today’s kids swap hard-core videos of their classmates. One clip features a 14-year-old girl. The teacher hasn’t arrived in class yet and Maria accepts a challenge from the other students: “Show us whether you’ve had a boob job”. A few moments later, the class is clustering around, mobiles at the ready to immortalise the strip show that Maria performs three or four times for her sniggering classmates. Maria herself is laughing and waving like a film star. Andrea thinks it’s quite normal when he shows us a girl sitting behind her desk and simulating – or perhaps not even simulating – oral sex with a classmate. The next video shows the teacher explaining to the class while in the back row of desks, a girl’s hand is busy at something that has little to do with schoolwork.

Young girls earn money from sex videos

It’s only a short step from shooting videos at school to webcams. Marina, 16, has been taking her clothes off on Skype in exchange for mobile top-ups for the past two years. The first time was when she answered a message on Facebook eloquently entitled: “Wanted. Girls for sale. Web-based work. No commitment”. She’s earning money and the admiration of her peers for very little effort. At least, that’s the way she sees it. “These young people are unaware of the significant risks in this sort of behaviour”, says privacy guarantor Francesco Pizzetti. “They ought to know that one day these videos could come to the notice of their employer, the father of the boy they want to get engaged to or even their fiancé. It is difficult, if not impossible, to erase a document from the web. But there are also problems of a legal nature. Publishing videos of a female classmate on the web can constitute an offence of pornography, corrupting a minor or similar which has to be answered for at the public prosecutor’s office”.

 

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