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How do we teach young people about consent?

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Consent is one of the corner-stones of great sex & positive sexuality, & yet because it’s so rarely talked about during sex education at school, young people are confused about what actually constitutes positive & enthusiastic consent.

As Rhiannon Holder (from the amazing charity, Brook) explains,

“Too often consent is viewed as a simple yes or no, and it’s much more complex than that,” says Holder. ”I don’t think many young people are offered the opportunity to explore all of the factors involved in giving consent: peer pressure, alcohol and drugs, self-esteem, coercion, gender issues.”

Enthusiastic consent can mean different things to different people, but if you’re not sure whether your partner’s happy or not, check in with them!

(via safercampus)

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Students Active for Ending Rape: Preventing Sexual Assault on College Campuses

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Claire Kaplan, UVA’s director of sexual and domestic violence services, speaks candidly about sexual assault prevention and the consequences of standing idly by.

By Lauren Reisig
August 2012

College campuses are a unique environment where the intellectual and the social collide, and…

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nerdydyke: socialismartnature: (Photo) Awesome anti-rape & victim-blaming flyer posted anonymously in Allston, MA - 8/20/12 As a side note: victim-blaming and slut-shaming are not the only things that will affect victims as well. Women are not the only rape victims, and men who are victims are far less likely than women to be taken seriously due to the way that society sees rape victims. We need to expand the way that we think about rape, and realize that male rape victims are also treated with victim-shaming as well as comments that go along the line of “well where I can find those women” or flat out laughter. As the poster says: Rape is rape and it’s never excusable.
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Artist’s statement: I came to “Bed of Roses” because my body and women’s bodies before mine have become a battleground during every election. I live in a nation that celebrates incredible thinkers and amazing inventors. A nation where my gender wasn’t allowed to vote until August 26, 1920. We take pride in offering shelter to people seeking political and religious asylum, and we advocate equality. We have the power to teach our daughters to plan their lives so they are the best parents they can be, and the medical means to allow them to choose with whom and when or if they want to be mothers. We have a historical responsibility to avoid the tragedy of the women of our country dying alone in fear, bleeding out and infected, too afraid to seek help because their actions have been criminalized. My artwork is delicate and disturbing — deceptively simple executions of complicated subjects. It documents early sexual awakenings, the visual manifestation of disease, and the social anxieties of realized and fictional characters. By illustrating the stifled habits of residual adolescent vulnerability, I document trends in fear — commercial and independent, personal and political. I am intent on revealing and exposing the subtext veiled within the broader societal narrative. Rendering the progress of innocence into awareness, my work chronicles the beauty of awkward seasons. We are captivated by the resilience of our own virgin selves and beguiled by the lure of shameless sensuality. My images are a garden of intimate scenarios, inviting viewers to observe without trespassing or offending. Fear hinders progress and corrupts power. Care, trust, and patience are what we cultivate to denote our lives and define our strengths. When our choices in any matter of growth and germination are depleted, our dreams are taken from us, and someone else’s victory overrides all truth and compassion. We are pruned of hope and robbed of our season. A leader is not someone who makes him or herself appear stronger by criminalizing another’s liberty and equality. Forgiveness is the greatest power because it allows us to think and see into the future. To beg for forgiveness is a kind of power, and to withhold or bestow it is the greatest power a leader can wield. We are silenced by fear, and the price of silence is deafening. A nation silenced and deafened by its government grows without blooming.
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"Attorney James Leon Holmes — who wrote that “concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami” — now sits as the chief judge of the Eastern District of Arkansas after being nominated by George W. Bush in 2004."

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Eve Ensler's Open Letter to Todd Akin

You used the expression “legitimate” rape as if to imply there were such a thing as “illegitimate” rape. Let me try to explain to you what that does to the minds, hearts and souls of the millions of women on this planet who experience rape. It is a form of re-rape. The underlying assumption of your statement is that women and their experiences are not to be trusted. That their understanding of rape must be qualified by some higher, wiser authority. It delegitimizes and undermines and belittles the horror, invasion, desecration they experienced. It makes them feel as alone and powerless as they did at the moment of rape.

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