Laura Bates said that one rape a day was committed during term time in schools

Schoolboy rapists think that their victims’ tears are a normal part of sex, the founder of the Everyday Sexism campaign said as she warned of a sexual assault epidemic in Britain’s playgrounds.

Laura Bates said that rape victims were being put back into classrooms with their attackers because schools were not given guidance telling them that this should not be done.

Ms Bates told the Edinburgh International Book Festival that a rape a day was being committed in British schools during term time.

She said that the “misogyny and dehumanising” nature of online pornography had made teenage boys think that making girls cry was “part of foreplay” and that the continuing absence of sex and relationship lessons in schools meant that there was no corrective