Emily Atack says men 'avoid' sleeping with drunk people

The Inbetweeners star and new mum is leading the Affirmative Consent campaign to change the law on informed consent to deliver ‘cultural and legal’ change

Emily Atack

Emily Atack has opened up about the ‘horrifying’ times she had sex with people while drunk and woke up knowing she hadn’t said ‘yes’. The Inbetweeners star and new mum, 34, is spearheading the Affirmative Consent campaign run by CPB London; In this campaign, the actress calls on the government to change the rape and sexual assault law.

Speaking to Made In Chelsea’s Jamie Laing on the Great Company podcast, Laing revealed that he rarely enjoys sex and often doesn’t even remember it. But she admits that as time goes on, her experiences will now be viewed differently, with women expected to “suppress” their feelings about sex and consent.

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Emily shared: “My situations were just uncomfortable — yes, literally. Honestly, I can probably only count on one hand where I actually enjoyed sex. I’m sorry, it sucked as a teenager growing up.”

“There were no barriers, no boundaries. The guys didn’t know how to be with the girls, and the girls didn’t know how to handle those situations. It was a complete mess.”

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Emily explained: “I’ve spent my whole life thinking: ‘If you wake up after a night out and something has happened but you don’t really remember it, you just have to pick it up and move on. It’s like there’s no way anyone can leave.” ….it’s not worth going down the ‘but I don’t remember, I don’t remember any of this’ route.” “‘Yeah, it sucks,'” he added. “I woke up many times and said, ‘I definitely didn’t say yes to that.'”

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She believes men ‘get away’ from sleeping with drunk people, and when asked if she ever felt shame after having sex she said: “Yes, it does, but it’s been suppressed for so long that we’ve been taught for so long that this is the normal way to have sex.” ; you wake up after a party and think, ‘Oh my God, I don’t really remember that anyway.’ And then you just kind of move on, we’re taught that that’s normal.”

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“The problem is now,” Emily continued. “We’re all having more conversations now, people coming out and saying, ‘Oh, I was raped then.’ And it’s hard to have to admit that to you. But at the same time, the reason it’s hard for men is because men are getting angry because they’re afraid, because a lot of The man will listen to these things and say, ‘I’ve done this before.’

“There will be men who are getting their kids’ uniforms ready for school and they’ll listen to something like that and stop in their tracks and say, ‘Oh shit, I’ve done that before.’ And they probably regret it and feel really bad, but now they realize it was wrong and it’s actually rape now.” “It’s hard for people to digest when they’re told that they’re seen as a person because they know they’ve done that at some point in their lives, a lot of people. That’s why it’s so hard to get there.”

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