Drawing on principles of participatory action research, we conducted workshop interviews with New Zealand secondary school girls about the dynamics of sexting between girls and boys. We worked with seven small groups of girls (28 in total) aged 16 and 17 (each participating in a series of three workshops). Talk about the pressures associated with sexting was a key theme in the discussions. Girls identified pressures both to send nudes and to not send nudes. They described these pressures as operating on interpersonal as well as wider sociocultural levels, marked by the complicated intersection of traditional discourses of heterosexuality with permissive and postfeminist discourses of empowered female sexuality. The dynamic participatory methodology we used allowed us to move beyond simply capturing a snapshot of the gendered dynamics of pressure. It provided a space in which girls also shared reflexive critical observations of the gendered inequalities associated with this practice.

根据参与性行动研究的原则，我们对新西兰中学女孩进行了关于男女两性间性爱动态的研讨会访谈。我们与七个小女孩组（总共28个）合作，年龄分别为16岁和17岁（每个人参加一系列的三个研讨会）。讨论与短信有关的压力是讨论中的关键主题。女孩们发现了发送裸体和不发送裸体的压力。他们将这些压力描述为在人际关系以及更广泛的社会文化层面上所施加的压力，其特征是异性恋的传统话语与赋权的女性性的宽松和女权主义话语之间的复杂交汇。我们使用的动态参与式方法使我们超越了简单地捕捉性别压力动态的快照。