Gossip Girl (2021) 
TV Show
Drama
Romance
TV Show
Drama
Romance
Updated: 22 January 2023
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned, discussed, implied
Sexual harassment e.g non-consensual grabbing, touching, cat-calling)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sex abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape off-screen or strongly implied
Rape on-screen

Description

In the first few episodes, full grown adults take pictures of a 15 year old with her shirt off and her boyfriend and post them on social media. Later, these same adults receive a video of a 17 year old having sex. Nowhere in the TV show, does anyone point out that these pictures and the video are legally considered child pornography. S1E4: a teacher sleeps with a 17 year old student of his. The age of consent in New York is 17, so this is not illegal, but a teacher is abusing his position of power and blames the student for this behavior in S1E7. The student films the encounter without the teachers knowledge or consent and sends the video to a social media account. S1E7: the teacher who slept with his student admits that he was wrong and quits teaching at the schoo. He also encourages the other adults to quit bullying the students. Worthy of note: cheating is a frequent occurrence on the show and the characters do not properly inform their supposedly monogamous partners, thus non consensually exposing them to possible STIs. S1E8: this episode features a storyline about a man who serially gets women drunk and has sex with them. He is a rich white man who tries to have his lawyers disprove what happened. There is a discussion about how only 2 to 6% of rape accusations are made up and how usually the perpetrator gets away with it. S1E9: there are conversations about how horribleteachers are being to the students by bullying them, tracking them, taking photos and video without consent. The episode explores how hard it is to prove that someone is a serial sexual consent violator. There is a lot of nuance and discussing how victims are damaged when they come forward, and how it is never a victim's responsibility to come forward and how the justice system fails rape victims. There is also a discussion on how women are constantly harassed by men when a bunch of drunk "Santa Con" goers grope and sexually harass women. S1E10: the show continues exploring a rich white man serial rapist. It includes some discussions about hard hard it is for victimes, with mentions of several actual public figures who are rapists and still work. S1E12: characters get a teenager drunk, despite her repeatedly saying she should not drink. S2E1: the season 1 recap shows an adult grooming a teenagerm and a text on screen says that the teacher groomed him during the first part of the actual episode (the sexual predator is on screen). An orgy is mentioned, which includes adults and teenagers. An adult asks teenagers to take pictures of other teenagers having a threesome. S2E2: a throuple tries to stay in the closet by pressuring the third into sexual situations with other people. These people also pressure him for sex (which he does not want). S2E4: someone uses their partner as a cover for dating a guy her parents do not like. The one partner thinks they are in love, but she uses sex to distract him while the other sneaks out. A girl cheats on both her boyfriends with her twin brother: the sex is consensual and a joke is made about "twincest". S2E5+6: a main character (16 years old ) has sex with a guy who she did not know was filming. She was also lying about her identity to him. He blackmails the actual person who he thought he was filming non consensually, who is also a teenager (17 or 18). S2E6: a main character is drugged and her clothes changed while is drugged A main character's dad being a rapist is brought up again. It is revealed that he got one of his victims pregnant and that he buried her in legal fees so she could not sue him. S2E7: a girl wants to drug two teenagers and stages them naked on top of each other. S2E8: a joke about pedophilia is made.

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