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WaPo: Elementary Kids Should be Taught How to Get and Give Sexual Consent
Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2015-10-22 18:39
Article here. Excerpt:
'While parents everywhere dread giving “the birds and the bees” talk to their kids, they might have to prepare for something even more complicated: Trying to explain to their child what the teacher's lesson on consensual sex actually means.
In an op-ed for The Washington Post Oct. 14, feminist activist Annie E. Clark whined, “Why are we waiting until college to learn about consent?” She went on to argue that it was necessary for elementary and middle school-age children to be taught about how to give and receive sexual consent.
“The first time students hear ‘consent’ should not be at their first-year [freshman] orientation,” she wrote. This is a “public health issue," and can be talked about in an “age-appropriate way,” she argued.
Really curious to see the Sesame Street episode on that.
What the Post declined to disclose outright, is that Clark also happens to be one of the prominent players in CNN’s smearing college-rape documentary,The Hunting Ground.
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The original article says to
The original article says to teach kids concept of consent, and uses an example of asking before petting someone else's dog. It doesn't say to teach them about sexual consent, just to get them used to the word.
It's not any different than what most of us were taught growing up, to keep our hands to ourselves and that no one has the right to touch us without our permission.