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''Kids Can Say No!'' is a 1985 British short educational film produced and directed by Jessica Skippon and written by Anita Bennett. It is intended to teach children between ages five and eight how to avoid situations where they might be sexually abused, how to escape such situations, and how to get help if they are abused. In the film, Australian celebrity Rolf Harris is in a park with a group of four children and tells them about proper and improper physical intimacy, which he calls "yes" and "no" feelings. The film has four role-playing scenes in which children encounter paedophiles, with Harris and the children discussing each scene. Harris said that he came up with the idea for the film on a 1982 Canadian tour when he saw Vancouver's Green Thumb Theatre production of ''Feeling Yes, Feeling No'', a play about child sexual abuse. ''Kids Can Say No!'', released in October 1985 on VHS in the United Kingdom, was the first British children's film about sexual abuse and was purchased by police forces, educational institutions, and libraries across Europe. Upon the film's release, ''The Times'' obtained opinions from four sexual-abuse experts, who unanimously opposed using ''Kids Can Say No!'' or any other film to teach children about the subject. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation received a positive response to its 1988 broadcast of ''Kids Can Say No!'' and therefore broadcast it a second time that year. Harris and Skippon collaborated on the 1986 sequel ''Beyond the Scare'', which advises teachers about what to do if a child discloses abuse. Showings of ''Kids Can Say No!'' eventually decreased as VHS became less popular. ''Kids Can Say No!'' resurfaced in 2014, when Harris was prosecuted for twelve counts of indecently assaulting young girls. The prosecutors found ''Kids Can Say No!'' on YouTube and wanted to show it at trial to illustrate its unintentional irony, but the film was not admitted as evidence. Harris was found guilty of all counts. During the trial, it was learned that, while Harris was filming ''Kids Can Say No!'', he was in the midst of a casual sexual relationship with his daughter Bindi's best friend and, by its release, he had committed nine of the twelve assaults. According to Richard Guilliatt and Jacquelin Magnay in an article in ''The Australian'', Harris' campaign against paedophilia in ''Kids Can Say No!'' can "be seen in retrospect as either monumental self-delusion or a sign of deep, self-lacerating guilt".〔 ==Contents== In ''Kids Can Say No!'', Australian celebrity Rolf Harris appears with four children between the ages of seven and eight and warns them about paedophiles. The film begins with its theme song,〔 "My Body",〔 which has the chorus "My body's nobody's body but mine. You run your own body. Let me run mine."〔 During the song, children ride a seesaw, skip rope and cycle.〔 〕 Harris sits under a tree in a park with the children—two girls and two boys〔—and tells them about proper and improper physical intimacy, which he calls "yes" and "no" feelings; a parent's hug is given as an example of a "yes" feeling.〔 In vox populi segments, children give other examples of "yes" and "no" feelings; one child says that being tickled by his father is a "yes" feeling, and another says that being squeezed hard is a "no" feeling.〔 Harris leads the children in a chant of "Go away!" as an exercise in how to respond to "no" feelings. He teaches the children about stranger danger,〔 〕 and that adults they know can also be a threat.〔 The film includes four role-playing scenes. In the first, a man tells a girl that he will buy her a toy if she goes home with him.〔 In the second, eight-year-old Natasha goes to her friend's house〔 and finds that only her friend's father is home;〔 after he intentionally spills water on her clothes, he tells her to take them off.〔 The film cuts to Harris, who says, "She should look him straight in the eye and tell him to stop, go away". In the third scene, a group of older boys try to lure young children into their "special club";〔 they lead one young boy to a secluded, wooded area and try to convince him to remove his clothes.〔 In the last role-playing scene, Sophie's father offers her a secret bubble bath; afterwards, he tells her not to tell anyone because he would go to jail and it would be her fault.〔 During and after each of the role-playing scenes, Harris and the children discuss the situation and what the child should do.〔 Harris tells the children not to be afraid to tell someone if they have been improperly touched, saying, "Some people don't act right with kids, and they need help. You can't protect them from trouble that they themselves have caused, and it's better to say something so that you and the family can get the help you need. You know nothing gets better by keeping quiet about it."〔 Harris says that, if it is difficult to explain where they have been touched, they can draw a picture or point to the place on a doll.〔 The film ends with "My Body" sung by a group of people including Harris, two police officers, and some children.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kids Can Say No!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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