“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.com
“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.com
“Consent education does something else transformative: It tells girls that sex is supposed to be for them.”— Jaclyn Friedman, vox.com