Share this article More than half of Irish teenagers have been asked by someone to send sexually explicit pictures of themselves, according to research. The recent study from the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre found that nearly 45% of participants (all aged between 15 and 18) had been ‘frequently’ asked to send such images. However, more than three quarters (76%) of the respondents had not sent such an image. Meanwhile, around a third of respondents said they’d received a sexually explicit image when they really didn’t want to - with that number 'much higher' among girls (21.9%) than boys (7.5%). Mairead Foody, lead author of the study, told