The ‘Bois Locker Room’ incident from Delhi has shaken and shocked the parents and teachers and garnered considerable media attention in May 2020. The boys from a social media group shared obscene images of fellow underage girl students, passed sexually explicit and offensive comments. There were discussions of raping these girls and threats to ‘kill’ them, etc. We at Population First wanted to know what was prompting the boys to engage in such conversations and how boys perceived this incident. An online survey was conducted with 226 boys of which more than three fourth were active on social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Instagram. 

Here is what we found out. 

Do let us know your views and any proactive steps you have taken to initiate conversations with boys on sex and sexuality. To stop violence against girls, we need to start talking to boys to counter the misogyny that is so widespread in our society.