California college students are demanding schools teach prospective students about sexual consent long before they arrive on campus to help prevent college rape.
Student activists from San Diego State University and from the University of California’s Berkeley and Santa Barbara campuses listed three demands to “Take Back The Campus” on Dec. 9. One pertains to prospective students:
“We recommend consent education in K12. College is too late for people to learn about bodily autonomy and respect.”
California is the only state with a “yes means yes” law for colleges, requiring partners to affirmatively agree to sex. The law has been controversial, showing that consent can be a tricky subject.
Students “get to universities and we expect them to behave like they’re supposed to without any prior understanding of what consent looks like,” Meghan Warner, director of the Associated Students of the University of California Sexual Assault Commission and a UC Berkeley student who endorsed the demands, told The Huffington Post.
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