Status of Women committee  That's fine.

Status of Women committee  Can I just say that girls are also sharing pictures of boys a lot, and that boys' images are more likely to be distributed, according to the MediaSmarts studies, which I'm sure will be referenced? That's a very interesting thing to know: that boys' images are more likely to get distributed.

Status of Women committee  I completely support Shaheen's perspective. I would say to take the money out of prisons and put it into education. You just need to look at the report from the most recent—and I can never remember the name of the individual who oversees prisons— Pardon me?

Status of Women committee  Howard Sapers, but there was a report recently, and I can't remember. Our statistics are upsetting. The number of women is growing at a disgusting rate, and the number of indigenous women in particular is growing, as is the criminalization of young people. If you make a policy document, take the money out of criminalization and prisons and courts and put it into education and research.

Status of Women committee  Go ahead, please.

Status of Women committee  May I add briefly?

Status of Women committee  Adopting a sext-positive perspective is not one that necessarily says that all sex is good all the time. When I talk to young people, really what it's educating about is that whatever moral code works for you is good, as long as it's consensual and as long as it's not doing any harm.

Status of Women committee  Could you repeat the first part of the question? I made a half-note on it.

Status of Women committee  I believe I remember enough. What I see is that there has always been a panic about the developments of new technologies as they intersect with sexuality and in particular young people's sexuality. We have seen this panic with the telegraph, the phone, and with all sorts of different new developments about making women's sexuality more visible and more accessible, and then also less moored to traditional notions of sexuality.

Status of Women committee  I do believe in education.

Status of Women committee  I mean education that is not anti-sex and not abstinence.

Status of Women committee  Sexters as objects of...?

Status of Women committee  Yes, thank you. Part of the idea about constructing sexters as objects of thought is that, for one, my particular project was very interested in understanding sexters as subjects of sexual production creation. In particular, when we think of sexters as objects of thought, partially what we're doing is turning them into objects of study without hearing how they themselves are experts on their own sexualities and their own sexual expression.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. This is my first time speaking to a parliamentary committee, and I'm very happy to be here. For the first time in my life going to speak slowly, I hope. I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you about cyberviolence against young women and girls.