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25% Of Boys Face Homophobic Slurs In Australian Schools

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Over 40% of students in high schools in NSW have reported being subjected to sexual harassment, and a quarter of the male students said they were called homophobic slurs.A study of over 4,000 students found that male students were more likely to experience six out of nine forms of sexual harassment than female students.“Prior to our study, no study had provided prevalence estimates of sexual harassment among adolescents in Australia, although there were previous studies that indicated that it is a problem,” Xiaojing Lei, the lead researcher of the study, told Star Observer.“Our study was an overdue attempt to investigate how prevalent sexual harassment victimisation in Australian adolescents is by providing the first Australian prevalence.

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