![]() ![]() Sarah, 17, was bullied by a group of boys as soon as she started secondary school. Like any kind of bullying, it can ruin the lives of the victims, but the sexual dimension of gender bullying means it can be even harder to talk about and so is rarely addressed. "Yet schools are public institutions and kids don't have any choice about whether they are there or not." "Things are happening in schools that would never be allowed to happen in the workplace," says Maria Banos Smith from the charity Womankind Worldwide. Sexual bullying can be used to describe anything from sexualised comments about appearance and name-calling, such as "slag", to spreading rumours about someone's sexual behaviour, to criminal offences such as assault and rape. These are just a few of the cases of sexual bullying that have been reported during the past few years. A 16-year-old schoolboy was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, and another was charged for filming the attack and distributing the pictures on his mobile phone. ![]() She was beaten up so badly she was in hospital for three days. A 14-year-old girl in Essex endured months of being called a "slag" and a "skank" and contemplated suicide one day about 30 teenagers set on her, pulling her top down and exposing her breasts. A 16-year-old girl in Cornwall was repeatedly called a "slapper" because she had a large bust she eventually had a breast reduction in the hope that the bullying would stop. ![]()
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