Sexual Bullying

Young people themselves rarely use the terms “sexual assault”, “rape”, or “sexual abuse” to describe unwanted sexual experiences and they can have difficulty naming an incident as sexual assault (Hird, 2000;Powell, 2007)

Sexual exploitation:

An umbrella term for a spectrum of negative sexual experiences that involve varying degrees of coercion: including young people facing unwanted pressure from their peers to have sex, sexual bullying, and young people being groomed into sexual activity online. The sharp end of this spectrum includes young people who have sex in exchange for drugs or somewhere to stay, and young people who are exploited through formal prostitution.

Sexual abuse/assault includes:

Pressuring someone onto having sex (this could include touching, kissing, fondling, oral sex or penetration)
Taking photos of someone in a sexual situation when they don’t want to be photographed or are not aware of it, including on a mobile phone.
Sending those photos to other people or posting them on websites Forcing someone to look at pornography
Offering someone to another person for sex.

Sexual Bullying:

Sexual bullying is any behaviour, which degrades someone, singles someone out by the use of sexual language, gestures, violence and victimisation related to appearance. This ranges from groping, name-calling, sexual assaults, and comments on female breast/male genital size. Sexual bullying is also pressure to act promiscuously and to act inappropriately at school. These behaviours happen inside and outside school, in social groups and via the internet or mobile phones.

TeenBoundariesUK 2009.

When and where does it happen?

At school outside schools hours, in social groups, cyber bullying.

How to tell if your child could be sexually bullied?

Withdrawn, extreme change in appearance- taking make up off, hiding their body more, over overtly over the top dressing (lots of make-up, cleavage, as a way of appearing in-control) become more aggressive, mood swings, crying, Paranoia.

What services can TeenBoundariesUk provide at our school to stop this?

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