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ENTITY shares this new consent workshop.

Sex education isn’t required in more than half of states in the U.S., so minors aren’t expected to know much of anything about how to have safe, consensual sex.

Thankfully, the Consent Project at Middlebury College is making great strides towards honest and helpful sex and consent education. It’s about time. This workshop is incredible and should be shared with every university, high school and even introduced in junior high.

Entity discusses the genius sex ed program, the consent project.

It’s not a regular, hypothetical-driven, awkward lecture that leaves students disengaged and relatively the same as they first began.

The student-run group provides activities, workshops and safe-space groups to facilitate healthy communication. They bring in speakers and host “Morning-After Breakfasts” on weekends to have judgment-free conversations about sex.

The Consent Project meetings answer questions the students bring up that they can’t talk about or didn’t cover in regular consent workshops through schools. The topics of pressure, of adequacy, rejection and intoxication all are addressed. The topics are taken seriously, but are in a comfortable enough environment to not be stiff and cold.

Sex education should be widely given, not just a “don’t do it” speech. Eventually, students are going to want to have sex, in or out of the context of marriage, and a lack of actual education will leave everyone in the dark and cause exponential problems.

There should be formal, real talks about what sex is and how much consent matters through schools in junior high, and more in-depth information like the Consent Project offers by high school.

The Consent Project knows how to approach real undergrads and meets them where they are, but I’d love to see that education required for a younger age group, when they are first considering taking that step in a relationship.

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Edited by Kayla Caldwell
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