Testimonies

Was sexually assaulted multiple times to and from school. Also during school events like swimming carnival . A suspension of 1 day was given to one of the perpetrators. A suspension of 3 days to the other. Unbelievable !

I think back to most sexual encounters i've been in.. and there's a common similarity of men refusing to wear condoms. Although agreeing to sex, I never agreed to sex without a condom, but this never seems to stop them. My virginity was taken engaging in unprotected sex simply because I didn't know better. I was told "it hurt's less", and I believed him because again... I didn't know better. Looking back, I'm horrified that these boys took advantage and refused to wear protection. This includes past boyfriends using the excuse "it doesn't feel good for me at all with one on". Refusing didn't seem like an option when a male is over the top of you, it feels overpowering, and I felt pressured. Awareness about consensual PROTECTED sex needs to be educated.

I remember going to various parties with X boys and X girls. One boy in particular would constantly rape his girlfriend at the time when she was unconscious/drunk and would tell his friends it was consensual/brag about it. He would also not wear protection and then give her money to buy the morning after pill, this being told to me by her friends at the time. The elitism and pretentiousness needs to be addressed as he is now working at a top firm and I wonder if he's current girlfriend is in the dark/experiencing sexual assault from this disgusting human being.

I was coerced, raped, and assaulted over the course of 11 months from a student at X. It never seemed like assault because i was dating him. He became abusive emotionally, mentally, and physically as our relationship continued. After being coerced into sex while i was 15 and he was older, and begging him to wear a condom because i wasn't on any sort of birth control, he ignored me. He proceeded to push my face into the corner of my mattress and my arms around my back without realising i was crying, in pain, and couldn't breathe. every thrash of my arm was pushed back down and he didnt stop until he saw blood and had realised what he had done. after the following he proceeded to put me in a shower for five minutes, then take me out and keep going. He would force himself on me in public. To this day i know he doesnt know that he raped me. He doesn't know he's assaulted me numerous times or the effects of his actions and that is one of the worst things. (please keep anonymous)

He was an older X boy who took my virginity at a house party. We had been flirting, and hanging out with mutual friends for a couple of months. I was too drunk to think about whether I actually wanted to have sex with him, he didn't speak to me throughout or ever ask that I was ok or consenting. The next time I saw him he tried to have sex with me again. I continuously told him 'no' but he insisted it was ok because this time he would wear a condom this time. I still said no many times and told him the condom wasn't the only issue, but was already semi-undressed in his bed and felt I could only leave by giving in and having sex with him. It was later pointed out to me that this sounded like date rape, but I told my friend it was fine I was actually happy about it, out of fear of acknowledging the situation for what it was, and what that would mean for our group of friends, and for myself '' I felt I had failed myself if I had "let myself be raped".

There have been a number of times where I have been drunk and ended up in a situation with a boy, then deciding I no longer wanted to be there. I would try to walk away and leave the situation, my body language was unmistakably showing I wasn't interested, sometimes I'd even say 'no, I don't want to'. Every time, I for some reason always felt like I wasn't entitled to change my mind, like I had put myself in the situation so I had to just suck it up. Sometimes I didn't just think this on my own, but was told it by the boy himself. Despite these instances, I would never have told anyone or even thought of myself as someone who had experienced sexual assault, because what happened to me 'wasn't that bad' and I felt I played some sort of role in it. It's scary how your petition and your posts remind me of these times and 5, 6, 7 years on I still feel sick in the stomach about the times I convinced myself I 'wasn't sexually assaulted'.

I was assaulted by my Year 9 boyfriend. When I came forward about my story months later after realising from a youtube video that I had been raped, I was laughed at by my peers and labelled a liar by his friends. I still struggle with it till this day, I do believe if consent was more openly discussed, things would have gone differently and i wouldn't have been so shunned.

It wasn't at school but in my 20s I was taken home from a club by a guy who I thought was nice and caring turns out he wasn't and he stayed in my bed and sexually assaulted me while I was passed out. Then told all his friends about it.

When I was about 15 years old I was at a party with some male and female friends. I had gone to the toilet and as I was in the toilet a boy I knew barged in. I was surprised and just thought he was drunk but then he started trying to touch me and pushed me up against the wall, I think I remember laughing nervously and saying I wanted to get out of the toilet. He kept trying to block my way and not let me out whilst asking me to touch his penis. The toilet was connected to the bathroom so you had to go through the bathroom to get to it, I had made my way out to the bathroom but I still couldn't get out to where other people where. He pinned me against the bathroom wall and pulled his pants down, I had never touched a penis before but he just kept asking and pressuring that I touched it for a few seconds and then stopped. During being in the bathroom my friend opened the door and I looked her dead in the eyes and said get me out of here, she laughed and closed the door. He didn't stop trying to pressure me and was now asking me to put his penis in my mouth. I pulled myself away as soon as I could and opened the bathroom door and ran away. This boy was popular and what we thought as young girls as being hot. Nothing ever happened to him in way of punishment.

During year 11, I met with a guy off of tinder where I was pressured into sex. I left that day feeling disgusted with myself. I spent years after not sure if it was rape because I had never exclusively said the word 'no' but he never asked for my consent (and I was crying). I was manipulated by him and those around me that this was 'normal'. I now understand that I was raped that day.

When I was about 15 years old I got drunk at a party on New Year's Eve, I ended up leaving the party to stay at a friends house but after having an argument with another girl there I decided to go back to the house the party was at and stay there for the night. When I got back there one of my male friends was still there also. They grabbed me a single mattress and put it in the lounge room next to the lounge that my friend was sleeping on. He started to reach down from the couch and tried to touch me, I kept saying no, quite a few times. I was so extremely tired at this point that I ended up falling asleep. I am not sure 100% what had happened but I am pretty certain he continued to finger me after I had passed out on the mattress. I never told anyone as I thought it was probably my fault and they would call me a slut. I had never been touched before, he was the first person I had done anything sexual with and it was not consensual.

At a gathering with people from my year group and some older, I was staying the night. I woke up to a graduated 19 year old with his hands down my pants telling me to 'shhhh'. I told his friends the next day and they said 'that's just what he is like'. I was 16.

I was 14, under the duty of care of my teachers on a school trip. my best friend leant over me to copy my answers and touched me under the table. i froze completely. i could not physically move or speak. he took my silence as consent, and did it again a few minutes later. then as the day went on he kept touching me; wrapping his arms around me and grabbing my ass. after that, i had panic attacks every day being in classes with him, experienced total disassociation, nightmares, self-blame and suicidal thoughts. i went to the school at my lowest point and they did nothing. i was forced to stay in classes with him, and the only bit of counselling the school psychologist did was put me in a room with him and have me explain why what he had done was wrong. she made him apologise and he was free to go. i eventually moved schools before grade 11 because they told me i would have to change my classes if i wanted to be away from him because i was the one who had the problem being around him.

I had consensual sex with a guy who had graduated from a private boy's school. During it, he stopped and started slapping me really hard. I asked him to stop and he refused, telling me that he liked causing pain and he pinned my arms down so that I couldn't push him off. He later did something else of a similar nature and sent me unsolicited pictures.

I was blackout drunk and raped by a boy from X. At the time, none of the boys from the school believed my story. One of them contacted me and mocked me.