In another, called This is Sexual Violence, a girl is taunted as a “dyke”. The girl he likes is also being pushed into having sex by a friend, urged to act like the “girls in porn” or she will be “boring and frigid”. In one film, Sexpectations, a boy is telling his friend how much he likes a girl but is labelled “gay” and a “virgin” because he didn’t try to have sex with her.
Rebecca Glanville, Angel Kirkland Bethany Hansborough, Sara Mansouri, Martyna Szer and Sarah Harlow bravely acted out disturbing scenarios while Christopher Dunlop and Shashwat Sharma showed that boys feel pressures too. “The film is a powerful way to get teenagers discussing the issues of consent to sex.” To him, it was drunken sex, to her, it was rape. Media Co-op’s Louise Scott said: “In one scenario, a boy has had sex with a drunk girl at a party.
The films, produced by Media Co-op, will be shown in schools across Scotland as part of the Rape Crisis prevention programme. Six girls and two boys from Leith Academy created scenarios about sexual bullying, rape and the influence of pornography, with the help of the Sexual Violence Prevention Team at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. YOUNGSTERS have helped to develop a groundbreaking series of films to tackle the daily sexual violence faced by Scots teenagers.
