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Yes means yes, lessons from affirmed consent

Nick Malherbe by Nick Malherbe 20 October 201520 October 2015

Freshmen (first-year university students) across the US are in the middle of what is known as “the red zone” — a period of time in which an especially high number of incidences of sexual violence are reported on college campuses. It is during this period that US universities typically engage in numerous awareness campaigns that […]

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Talk dirty to me, talk about consent

by Tiffany Kagure Mugo 30 September 201512 October 2015

“Please can I take this off you …?” Things get hot and heavy and you whisper this in a manner so low it is barely audible. The night just gets better from there. That was an instant of asking for consent. There are so many ways of asking for consent. I have friends who go […]

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Criminalising adolescent sexuality — murky waters

Jen Thorpe by Jen Thorpe 28 November 2011

I went to a thrilling dialogue at the Commission for Gender Equality last week. The topic was the ages of consent for sex, in terms of our legislation, and the complications that the current legislation has. At the moment the law (the Sexual Offences Act) says that if you’re 16 years and older you can […]

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