Consent On Campus A Manifesto – Donna Freitas

On the other end of the spectrum, we teach our young people all the don’ts of sex, leaving them paralyzed to ask questions or to challenge the rules handed down by campus culture. By politicizing sex education, we are failing this generation. We aren’t teaching them about what sex might mean to them or their partners—which, of course, has everything to do with the kind of story we pass on about consent. The conversation about sex and consent should not take place on a partisan battlefield.

It should begin from a place of concern for our children and our students, and not from a place of fear or judgment. One-size-fits-all sexuality actually fits only the very few, while leaving most everyone else sidelined, isolated, silent, and afraid to challenge the status quo. Hookup culture is one such one-size-fits-all culture, and the state of sex education leaves young people ill-equipped to deal with it.

The question becomes: What culture might replace hookup culture on campus? And how do we foster a culture that isn’t one-size-fits-all? It’s not that all scripts and narratives are bad or disempowering. It’s that we need to offer new scripts to replace these problematic ones—scripts that empower students to ask difficult questions, to become self-aware, critical thinkers about sex, as opposed to blind followers of inherited norms. These scripts and narratives must empower them to ask questions about sex: about its meaning and purpose and what they want from it.

We need scripts that privilege consent and overturn the propensity toward sexual violence that runs through our culture. We need to begin to construct these new narratives —narratives that open rather than narrow the choices available to young people, to accommodate the diversity of our campus populations. This is a tall order but not an impossible one, and one I will do my best to address in Part III of this book.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Freitas, Donna, author. Title: Consent on campus: a manifesto / Donna Freitas. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018001913 (print) | LCCN 2018021393 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190671167 (updf) | ISBN 9780190671174 (epub) | ISBN 9780190671150 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Rape in universities and colleges—United States—Prevention. | College students—Sexual behavior—United States.

| Sexual consent—United States. | Sexual ethics—United States. Classification: LCC LB2345.3.R37 (ebook) | LCC LB2345.3.R37 F74 2018 (print) | DDC 371.7/82—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018001913 1kitap1.com/en CONTENTS Preface: Dear All University Presidents . . . PART I The Situation on Campus as It Stands Introduction: When Assault Becomes “Normal” 1. Title IX: A Crash Course 2.

The State of Consent Education 3. Drinking on Campus and Sexual Misconduct Policies PART II Inherited Stories: Scripts for Hooking Up, Being a Man, Being a Woman 4. Hookup Culture: Expectations of Sexual Ambivalence 5. Men and Masculinity: The Problematic Relationship between Men and Sex 6. A Hierarchy of Bodies: Sexual Privilege, Gender, Shame, and Blame PART III Telling the Story of Consent: Rewriting and Transforming Campus Narratives 7.

When Culture and Sexual Ethics Are Good: Preparing Ourselves to Do Necessary Work 8. Scripting Consent: An Activist Lesson Plan 9.

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