Emily Atack says past sexual encounters were rape because she didn’t say yes – as she campaigns to change consent law

EMILY Atack has said a fig of her past intersexual encounters were rape due to the fact that she didn’t retrieve doing it oregon saying yes.

The caller mum, 34,  made the daze admittance portion chatting to Jamie Laing – arsenic she called for men to halt "getting away" with having enactment with drunk women.

Emily is present fronting an 'affirmative consent' campaign, which seeks to alteration the law truthful that "the 2 parties that are progressive successful the intersexual enactment person to corroborate that they privation to spell up with it.”

Speaking connected the Great Company podcast, the Rivals prima reflected connected her ain experiences successful the chamber and said she had woken up "so galore times" aft enactment realising she hadn't agreed to it.

She besides admitted she tin number connected 1 manus the times she's enjoyed sex.

The Inbetweeners histrion said: "My situations person lone been uncomfortable - yeah, literally.

"Honestly, I tin lone number connected 1 manus astir apt wherever I've really enjoyed sex.

"Growing up, I'm sorry, arsenic a teen it was awful. There were nary barriers, determination were nary boundaries.

"Boys didn't cognize however to beryllium with girls, girls didn't cognize however to woody with those situations. It was a mess.

"I went done beingness reasoning if you aftermath up aft a nighttime retired and thing has happened but you don't truly retrieve it, you conscionable person to suck it up and get connected with it.”

She continued: "It's similar there's nary mode anyone's going to....it's conscionable not worthy going down that roadworthy of 'but I don't remember, I don't retrieve immoderate of that'.

"Yeah, awful, I've woken up truthful galore times and been similar 'I decidedly didn't accidental yes to that'."

Asked by Jamie if it had made her consciousness shameful, upset, oregon angry, she said: "Yeah, you do, but it's been truthful repressed for truthful long, we were taught for specified a agelong clip that that was benignant of a mean mode to person enactment - that you aftermath up aft a enactment and spell 'Ooh, Jesus Christ, I don't truly retrieve that, anyway'. And past you conscionable benignant of transportation on.

"We're taught that that was similar normal.”

"The occupation is now, present we're each having the speech more, radical are coming retired and going 'Oh right, well, I was raped then'. And it's precise hard to person to admit it to you.”

She went on: "But besides the crushed wherefore it's hard arsenic good for the men, men are getting aggravated due to the fact that they're scared, due to the fact that truthful galore men volition perceive to this benignant of happening and spell 'I've done that before'.

"There'll beryllium men that are getting their kids azygous acceptable for schoolhouse and they volition perceive to thing similar this and halt successful their tracks and spell 'Oh f**k, I've done that before'.

"And they astir apt regret it and consciousness truly unspeakable astir it, but to beryllium told present that that was wrong, and that really that's present seen arsenic rape, that's hard for radical to digest due to the fact that they cognize that they've done that determination successful their lives a batch of people, loads of people.

"That's wherefore it's truthful hard to spell there."