“Boys learn not to worry about girls’ pleasure, and when girls and women have sexual encounters that don’t feel good — whether they’re just unsatisfying or actively abusive — they’re primed to accept that’s just how sex is.”— Jaclyn Friedman, vox.comTagged: Affirmative Consent, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Awareness, Sexual Coercion
“Studies show that most rapists are perfectly aware their victims aren’t into what’s happening. And social science has also clearly demonstrated that men (and women!) are perfectly capable of understanding social cues, even ones where someone is saying “no” without using that actual word.”— Jaclyn Friedman, vox.comTagged: Affirmative Consent, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Awareness, Sexual Coercion
“Teaching affirmative consent does something profound: It shifts the acceptable moral standard for sex, making it much clearer to everyone when someone is violating that standard.”— Jaclyn Friedman, vox.comTagged: Affirmative Consent, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Awareness, Sexual Coercion
“But the most damaging thing that happens when we leave pleasure out of sex ed is that we allow girls to go on thinking that sex is something that’s not really for or about them.”— Jaclyn Friedman, vox.comTagged: Affirmative Consent, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Awareness, Sexual Coercion
“Consent education does something else transformative: It tells girls that sex is supposed to be for them.”— Jaclyn Friedman, vox.comTagged: Affirmative Consent, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Awareness, Sexual Coercion