AITAH in this situation regarding my class?

I’m gonna keep this as simple as I can but fair warning it may be long and I’ll try my best to explain it. So basically I am in school for a career that has a certain sexual stereotype this comes to be important later on. Today I got pulled into the office regarding two issues the first one I will not discuss as it’s irrelevant to what I need advice on but the second one was because another student was seeing a client that she never seen before we will call this client Jack, from my understanding jack asked my fellow student if she does sexual things for money and had said I did as well and proceeded to show the student a nude picture of me with my face in it. From what I’ve gathered this student had told the class about this interaction on one of the days I was not there and as well as the principal. After the meeting with my principal where he told me this I had pulled aside one of my classmates to ask her about it as it was one that I was more close too, the conversation regarding it barley started and another student came out and gave me an earful full on yelling at me telling me it’s my fault that this is happening whoever I send nudes to its fair game who sees it, a bit of slut shaming, that I take no accountability for my actions, this is my fault, I traumatized the student who had to see this, I make this career look like a joke. The list goes on, at this point there is 4 of us out there 1 isn’t talking much the other one is explaining to me calmly what’s going on and the main one who is yelling at me. Eventually we go inside and it gets brought up in class and we have a class discussion about it where it was mainly her and I just screaming, she repeats the same shit, In explaining to the whole class some of the shit no one will tell me who this client is until they said one specific thing that made me realize who it was.

So back when I was 12-14 I’m 21 now I used to be a “prostitute” I use the quotation marks as I was a child and the men who were involved were way over age one as old as 36 regardless of what people think I’ve learnt through therapy that I was a victim and those men were manipulating me. I don’t always fully believe that mindset but that’s neither here or there. Anyway back when those men got sentenced I was around 17 I started to get messages from Jake as he is friends with 2 of the guys blackmailing me todo things with him in exchange of money or he would leak photos of me and the other girls involved with his friends I never had sex with the guy but I decided to take advantage of this I also didn’t want mine or my friends photos leaked to anyone. So for a good year I played his game I sent him fake photos and fake videos off of adult websites and it was fine eventually I started to consider the career I am in now and wanted to stop doing that stuff so I blocked him, I’d get the odd anonymous message from him threatening to expose me but I just ignored it figuring he has empty threats. Come to 3 years later and it’s the present time.

A few months back I advertised online that I’m looking for clients,Jake messages me regarding it however at that point I didnt know it was the same Jake as he gave me a different last name then what I know him by, I book him in and when I see him I realize it’s the same guy. I was behind on hours that I needed to catch up on and I thought maybe he doesn’t know it’s me. We do our treatment everything is 100% professional I thought I was in the clear and I continuously booked him in for a few more sessions. He never crossed a line our past wasn’t brought up so I thought I was in the clear. I don’t end up booking him in after our last visit as we had our finials and a break from school, I start getting adds online from Jake under fake names asking me for nudes, sexual services things like that. I block the accounts and disengage and come to the realization he probably knew it was me all along.

One day I received a text from a number and it was a video of my nudes and the message said “ you wanna treat me like garbage then you will fucking find out”. I never took the threat serious blocked and then blocked the number. The nudes were mine my face was in there however these were specific nudes I had sent to my now ex boyfriend if 3 years and only him.

2 weeks before I received my own nudes from Jake, my ex sent our sex tapes and nudes to a handful of people. It was a huge thing but I put two and two together and realized something. My ex is friends with one of the 4 who got charged and Jake shares that same friend plus another one. I figure that’s where Jake got my nude from.

Anyway the story with my classmates happened today majority of my class mates are middle aged women I went home and called up friends and family and told them this and we all share the same opinion. Which is I sent the nude to my boyfriend thinking it was safe I should have been able to trust him not to send it around regardless he did, it was also extremely inappropriate of Jake to share that photo with a classmate and tell her I sent that for money. I’m getting blamed by my classmates saying it’s fair game and everything I listed before. No one is taking into account that what Jake did was also wrong and predatory. I’m having a hard time understanding why they are upset to the extent they are about this. I said I will apologize that the student had to see it but I won’t apologize for sending it in the first place. I also said I don’t offer sexual services for money with using my career to cover that.

Things are bad they treat me like I’m some nasty slut and no one wants to be around me except for 3 of the 11 of them. I don’t care for them to be my friends however I care that such accusations are going around and I felt a bit nervous and scared to speak up how I knew Jake and give the whole back story. I don’t want anyone thinking i would use my career in a way to cover up sexual services because I don’t. But I also feel like they already made their mind up about me

I hope I explained this well if u need any clarification let me know and I’ll clear it up but I’m so lost on what todo

Posted May 1, 2026, 3:39 AM UTC · locked

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