Three years ago, the young man who would later be known as John Doe 1 shuffled into the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. It was still wintery in April, and his state-issued jacket was poor protection against the drafts coming through the broken windows, shattered by men who had passed through before. The rituals of intake were familiar. But he also noticed that he was one of the youngest prisoners on the block.
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Angie Varona Struggles to Live a Normal Life Four Years Later
All of this has led to a big question: Why? Why do so many women agree to unwanted sex? One answer is that their conditioning starts young. In a December study of sexting among to year-old girls, Sara E. Thomas of Northwestern University analyzed stories posted to an online, anonymous platform. She reports that most of the girls felt pressured to comply with requests to send naked photos of themselves to boys who demanded them. Some boys collect photos of girls like playing cards, assigning value to each image. Even girls whose images are considered valuable are cheapened. Today, teens still inhabit a culture that says that boys will be boys, and girls will be sluts. Their experiences show that women are routinely treated as sex objects and punished for doing what is expected of them.
The year-old said her likeness has shown up on porn sites, humor sites and reddit. There are also numerous unauthorized Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and YouTube channels, all claiming to be Varona -- one Facebook fan page has more than 41, likes. A recent Google search of "Angie Varona" turned up , original search items, including 63, photos tagged with her name. Many of the photos out there now, Varona said, are not her originals, but are remakes or women pretending to be her. They Photoshopped the top off. This summer, in an effort to spread awareness about the dangers of photo hacking, Varona decided to tell her story to the " Miami Montage ," a publication put together by high school journalism students at a University of Miami, then decided to tell her story to "Nightline. Varona was just 14 years old when she uploaded some provocative photos of herself wearing lingerie and bikinis -- no nude pictures, she said -- to the image-sharing website, Photobucket. It was decision that she said has ruined her life.
