Sex, dating and family
Someone wants me to send nudes. What do I do?
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New Zealand
Netsafe 0508 638 723
Online harm, including someone threatening to share your pictures. Text Netsafe to 4282, or report online any time at report.netsafe.org.nz. Calls weekdays 9am to 5pm.
Take It Down takeitdown.ncmec.org
Helps get nude pictures taken before you were 18 off the internet. The picture never leaves your phone. Online, any time.
Australia
eSafety Commissioner esafety.gov.au
Report sextortion and shared intimate images. They help get them removed. Online, any time.
Take It Down takeitdown.ncmec.org
Helps get nude pictures taken before you were 18 off the internet. The picture never leaves your phone. Online, any time.
United Kingdom
Report Remove childline.org.uk/remove
Under 18: get a nude picture of you taken down, with Childline and the IWF. Online, any time.
Take It Down takeitdown.ncmec.org
Helps get nude pictures taken before you were 18 off the internet. The picture never leaves your phone. Online, any time.
Ireland
Take It Down takeitdown.ncmec.org
Helps get nude pictures taken before you were 18 off the internet. The picture never leaves your phone. Online, any time.
United States
Take It Down takeitdown.ncmec.org
Helps get nude pictures taken before you were 18 off the internet. The picture never leaves your phone. Online, any time.
Canada
NeedHelpNow.ca needhelpnow.ca
Help for young people when sexual pictures are shared or someone threatens you (Cybertip.ca). Online, any time.
Take It Down takeitdown.ncmec.org
Helps get nude pictures taken before you were 18 off the internet. The picture never leaves your phone. Online, any time.
Germany
Austria
Rat auf Draht 147
For children and young people, free and anonymous. Also if someone threatens to share your pictures. Any time.
Switzerland
Pro Juventute 147
For children and young people. Also WhatsApp and chat at 147.ch, and if someone threatens to share your pictures. Any time.
Somewhere else? Call your local emergency number, or find a free helpline for your country at findahelpline.com.
Short answer
Don't send them. If you already have, or someone is threatening you, you are not in trouble with God. Tell a trusted adult today.
If someone asks you for nude photos, the answer is no, even if you like them, even if they say everyone does it, even if they promise to delete them. Someone who really cares about you won't pressure you.
If you've already sent something, God has not given up on you. Many who send one photo are then threatened: send more or pay, or it gets shared. This is sextortion, a crime against you. Don't pay, stop replying, keep the chat and the account name (but don't save, forward or screenshot the photo itself), block them, and tell a trusted adult right away. They can help you report it to the police or a safety service like Netsafe in New Zealand.
If an adult has asked you for photos, that is abuse, and it is never your fault. Tell a parent, teacher or youth leader today.
Shame wants you to hide. Jesus wants you in the light, where you can be helped.
My verses
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.