R: I do get very assertive. I need the kind of boys to know that I'm here and that I'm not going to take any rubbish and I think than the more I get to know guys, the less I, the more I kind of calm down.
R: (…) the number of women killed and abused in Spain and in Portugal in the last year. It’s frightening! It’s frightening in Spain, and it’s frightening in Portugal.
“What comes to mind is that different types of people start bothering you in the streets with different types of intensity. That happened quite a lot when I was younger, was that there were these stupid sexualized remarks, but also other types of remarks. but I must say..
R: (…) In fact, as the years went by, some situations occurred, few, in my point of view for what it’s possible to happen. There are some situations in which we even ask between the lines if there is the possibility of… but no.
R: (…) being a boy allowed me to get some freedom… and it happened because I’m a boy.
R: Everything you see on TV gives a distorted picture of sexuality. I do think that it changes over time, but surely not as much as TV suggests.
R: And then we were confronted with sexual abuse in our immediate vicinity. And where was that? With our neighbors. We had, we lived in a 2-under-one-roof type of house. We had a friendly relationship with them but nothing more. We were not intensely involved in their lives.
R: To come back with someone [so as to return home accompanied]. They [my parents] always tell me to…I don’t think that any boy is told to come back home with someone. But my mother always tells me to. This fear…’go with someone, one of your friends must accompany you back home’.