Reality Check Blog: 'To End the Campus Rape Epidemic, Let Go of Secrecy'

Article here. Excerpt:

'One of the most disturbing things about the culture of secrecy and total lack of transparency uncovered by the CPI last week is that such a veiled system makes progress really hard to measure. Campus rape won't end until we attack rape culture at its roots, but there are ways to curb the problem, such as innovative, mandatory education programs, transparent channels for counseling and reporting and student-led initiatives like Men Against Rape that target fraternities and other student groups, or Take Back the Night events which brings the issue into the open.

Another method that some schools have embraced and more should is to separate rape prevention programming from campus sex ed programs, thereby clearly delineating the difference between healthy sex between consenting parties and rape, rather than contributing to the boundary-blurring that plagues the issue. A feminist-minded way of doing this is promoting a model of "enthusiastic consent" as posited in the book Yes Means Yes (now being used for sex ed at Colgate University!); the idea that consent is more than a lack of no, but a wholehearted yes.'