Chanel Contos reveals eight topics to be taught in sex ed classes to stop sexual abuse epidemic
4 years ago

Chanel Contos reveals eight topics to be taught in sex ed classes to stop sexual abuse epidemic

Daily Mail  

The woman responsible for drawing attention to a sexual abuse epidemic in Sydney's elite private schools has drafted eight topics that must be taught in sex education classes to give students a well-rounded understanding of consent. More than 5,000 young women shared harrowing stories of sexual abuse at the hands of first boyfriends, male friends or older schoolboys in a viral petition demanding better sex education in schools. Ms Contos believes earlier education in schools and at home would be beneficial for both boys and girls More than 20,000 people had already signed the petition by Tuesday, while some 1,484 testimonies had been posted and another 4,000 were waiting to be reviewed and shared Sexual Coercion Sexual coercion is characterised as an act which pressures a victim into performing a sex act or makes them feel guilty for choosing to not participate. Chantel Contos, the 22-year-old former Kambala School student who first started the petition, was motivated by stories of teenagers who weren't aware they had been abused until it was too late Jacqueline Hendriks, who runs Curtin University's sexology curriculum, said young people need to be taught how to have 'really positive, enjoyable sexual relationships' in school Enthusiastic Consent 'If it's not hell yes!

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Safe Sphere: Improving sexual education for young people
1 year ago

Safe Sphere: Improving sexual education for young people

ABC  

How might we ensure that young people in regional and remote communities receive relevant and comprehensive sexual education? We've developed Safe Sphere, offering a co-designed sex ed program Community groups can create a forum where young individuals can openly ask about topics left unanswered by traditional sex ed classes. Safe Sphere operates on a cyclical model designed by young people …

Sex education in schools to be reviewed amid concerns over ‘inappropriate’ lessons
2 years ago

Sex education in schools to be reviewed amid concerns over ‘inappropriate’ lessons

The Independent  

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Emily Atack: It’s the lack of consent that gives them the thrill
2 years, 1 month ago

Emily Atack: It’s the lack of consent that gives them the thrill

The Independent  

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Queensland's overhauled sex education teaches prep students consent basics, while teenagers learn 'how to say no'
2 years, 5 months ago

Queensland's overhauled sex education teaches prep students consent basics, while teenagers learn 'how to say no'

ABC  

Ayla* was just 12 years old when a male friend at the time sent her explicit sexual images without her consent. Key points: Queensland's consent education has been overhauled after being nationally mandated Prep students will learn body privacy while high school students will practise "how to say no" Experts say new materials will help bridge the gap between teachers' …

Students and teachers demand better, more modern sexual education at schools
2 years, 5 months ago

Students and teachers demand better, more modern sexual education at schools

NL Times  

Sex education in schools must be improved and focus on more than just the biological aspects of having safe sex. Students, teachers, educational organizations, and expertise centers said this in a manifesto that they will hand to Education Minister Dennis Wiersma and Mariette Hamer, the government commissioner on sexually transgressive behavior, NU.nl reports. “Recent events around sexually transgressive behavior show …

Sexual Offences Against Women: Key Interventions
2 years, 9 months ago

Sexual Offences Against Women: Key Interventions

Live Law  

A country in which women are violated in broad daylight, thrown on streets after gory torture and muzzled and suffocated under the garb of sacrifice and societal obligations is nothing short of a failure to its very existence. However, at this stage, what deserves our unequivocal attention is the long-neglected issue of the prevalence of rape myths attached to female …

Why sex education needs to be more than just about biology and reproductive organs
2 years, 10 months ago

Why sex education needs to be more than just about biology and reproductive organs

Firstpost  

Sex education should always be more about an open dialogue than just biology and diagrams of reproductive organs Any conversation about a young woman’s sexual agency in rural India is loaded with social and cultural subtext. One of the biggest hurdles in normalising sex education in schools is the anxiety that it will lead young girls astray and put them …

Sexual assault is not a crime of ignorance: Why consent education does not address the real problem
2 years, 11 months ago

Sexual assault is not a crime of ignorance: Why consent education does not address the real problem

ABC  

Last month, the National Student Safety Survey released damning findings about the rates of sexual assault and harassment at Australian universities. Rather, what does our obsession with consent education — further reflected in an array of bizarre metaphors likening sex to, among other things, bike-riding, tea-drinking, and milkshake-sharing — imply about the assumed causes of sexual assault? But, by the …

Netflix’s Sex Education is doing sex ed better than schools
3 years, 4 months ago

Netflix’s Sex Education is doing sex ed better than schools

Live Mint  

By Debra Dudek, Associate professor, Edith Cowan University and Giselle Natassia Woodley, Researcher and Phd Candidate, Edith Cowan University Perth, Nov 11 : Netflix’s comedy Sex Education, now in its third season, is set among a group of students and teachers at a British high school. The premise of the show is the teenagers at Moordale High do not receive …

How will consent education in schools change next year? Students demand answers
3 years, 4 months ago

How will consent education in schools change next year? Students demand answers

ABC  

Teaching school students about consent should be considered as important as teaching them mathematics and English, a Queensland education department representative says. Hayley Stevenson, the department's executive director of student protection and wellbeing, said teaching students about consent was "absolutely" vital and state schools would not be able to opt out of the new curriculum, which will be introduced next …

Consent education to become mandatory in Victorian state schools
4 years ago

Consent education to become mandatory in Victorian state schools

ABC  

The Victorian government will make consent education mandatory in public schools, describing it as an "important step" students have been calling for. Key points: The Victorian government will work with education experts and young people to develop the program Students had contacted the state government to request better consent education, a minister says The move follows weeks of national debate …

Brisbane Boys' College students calls on peers to 'stop being boys, be human' in wake of national sexual assault conversation
4 years ago

Brisbane Boys' College students calls on peers to 'stop being boys, be human' in wake of national sexual assault conversation

ABC  

The school captain of one of Brisbane's top private boys' schools has called on his peers to put an end to rape culture and be proactive in stopping the sexual assault and harassment of women. Key points: Brisbane Boys' College captain Mason Black made a powerful speech to his peers The Queensland government has ordered a review of how sexual …

Migrant parents call for support in sexual consent education as student-led petition gains momentum
4 years ago

Migrant parents call for support in sexual consent education as student-led petition gains momentum

ABC  

Zhen Liang desperately wants to talk to her Australian-born teenage daughter about consent before she graduates from high school, but she doesn't even know where to start. Key points: Migrant parents struggle to talk about sexual consent with their children due to cultural and language barriers One educator says schools are reluctant to communicate with parents about "sensitive" content There …

Sexual assault survivor speaks out about being drugged and raped by two private school boys
4 years ago

Sexual assault survivor speaks out about being drugged and raped by two private school boys

Daily Mail  

A brave sexual assault survivor has broken her silence after being drugged and raped by two private school boys at a party, only to be asked by a police officer if she was a virgin when reporting the crime. Former Kambala school student Chanel Contos, 22, launched the petition on February 18 after reflecting on her own sexual assault as …

Australian children to be given special lessons on 'consent'
4 years ago

Australian children to be given special lessons on 'consent'

Daily Mail  

Australian schools will soon be provided with more material about consent, respectful relationships and sexual abuse for students from prep to year 12. Former Sydney school student Chanel Contos, 22, has launched a petition called Teach Us Consent, which advocates for earlier and improved sex education. Former Kambala student Chanel Contos, 22, started the petition when she realised last year …

Review into sex education in Queensland schools welcomed by teachers and advocates
4 years ago

Review into sex education in Queensland schools welcomed by teachers and advocates

ABC  

The state government's decision to review sexual education in Queensland schools, particularly teaching sexual consent, has received high marks from teachers as advocates call for the topic to be discussed from a younger age. Key points: Schools welcome the state government's plan to review sexual education The move comes after disturbing allegations surfaced in an online petition Advocates say education …

Why “consent” doesn’t stand a chance against porn culture
4 years ago

Why “consent” doesn’t stand a chance against porn culture

ABC  

Warning: this article contains accounts of sexual assault that many will find disturbing. I was coerced and forced to do something I didn’t not want to do without ever being asked if it was something I wanted at all.” Another writes, “I was educated to say ‘No’ I was never taught what to do if you get raped.” De-radicalising boys …

Headmaster says parents are complicit in sexual assault if they allow kids to host boozy parties
4 years ago

Headmaster says parents are complicit in sexual assault if they allow kids to host boozy parties

Daily Mail  

The headmaster of an elite boys' school claims parents are enabling sexual assault if they host alcohol-fuelled teenage parties. More than 2,000 young women shared harrowing stories of sexual abuse at the hands of schoolboys after a petition calling for better sex education in Australian schools went viral in February. Chanel Contos started a petition for better sex education in …

Sydney school students call for earlier education on sexual relationships and consent in wake of petition
4 years ago

Sydney school students call for earlier education on sexual relationships and consent in wake of petition

ABC  

For year 12 student Ethan Nixon, an online petition containing thousands of testimonies of teenage sexual assaults has made confronting reading. Key points: Education on relationships and consent should be targeted at younger students, school leaders say Year 8 students from St Andrew's Cathedral School attend regular seminars on safe relationships Students say some pupils are still unsure about what …

NSW police met with education leaders to address sexual violence
4 years ago

NSW police met with education leaders to address sexual violence

Daily Mail  

Chanel Contos started a petition calling for action to sexual assault at schools NSW police and education leaders have promised to address sexual violence in the state's schools after thousands of women and girls shared stories of their assaults as students. The petition of nearly 28,000 signatures was started by former Kambala School student Chanel Contos, and is accompanied by …

As advocates push for better sexual consent education to be taught to young people, one principal warns schools can't be the only solution
4 years ago

As advocates push for better sexual consent education to be taught to young people, one principal warns schools can't be the only solution

ABC  

Two weeks ago, Chanel Contos, 22, asked her Instagram followers if they'd experienced sexual assault at the hands of a fellow school student. Key points: Thousands of young people came forward with stories of being sexually assaulted by fellow students after an online petition Principals from nine Sydney schools have vowed to commit to better education around consent Wenona School …

Chanel Contos launches website detailing Australia's private school sex assault shame
4 years ago

Chanel Contos launches website detailing Australia's private school sex assault shame

Daily Mail  

Thousands of incidences of sexual abuse involving private school students have been detailed on a new website after an online petition went viral. Former Kambala High School student Chanel Contos has collected testimonials from thousands of private school students who say they were raped and assaulted by their male peers One parent said they had pulled their children out of …

Does Australia's sex education curriculum need to include more on sex positivity, LGBTQI+ relationships and intimacy?
4 years, 2 months ago

Does Australia's sex education curriculum need to include more on sex positivity, LGBTQI+ relationships and intimacy?

ABC  

Sex education classes at school need to better represent the relationships and sex lives of average young people, according to Melbourne teenager Tamsin Griffiths. Latrobe University sexual health academic Christopher Fisher said this "patchwork" approach meant sex ed delivery in Australia was a "mixed bag". "Some young people told us how amazing they found sex ed, that they learned so …

'They Think We'll Teach Them How to Have Sex': NEP 2020 Misses the Point of Sex Education
4 years, 6 months ago

'They Think We'll Teach Them How to Have Sex': NEP 2020 Misses the Point of Sex Education

News 18  

“I was in class 9 and only fourteen years old when I realised how important sex education was during my biology class,” says 26-year-old Priyanka*. Consequently, repression of one’s sexuality could lead to “coercion, abuse and exploitation.” Rao explained that the major issue with sex education in India is the source of information. That reduces stress and improves communication with …

Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You gave me a better sex education than school ever did
4 years, 8 months ago

Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You gave me a better sex education than school ever did

The Independent  

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Dutch teens dissatisfied with sex-ed lessons at school
5 years, 5 months ago

Dutch teens dissatisfied with sex-ed lessons at school

NL Times  

Teenagers in the Netherlands are dissatisfied with the sex education they receive at school, giving their sexual education classes an average score of 5.8, according to a study by Rutgers and Soa Aids Nederland. Knowledge center Rutgers asked seventeen young researchers to speak to a total of 300 pupils about the sexual education they receive at school. The researchers found …

Only 8 states require sex ed classes to mention consent
6 years, 5 months ago

Only 8 states require sex ed classes to mention consent

CNN  

CNN — In elementary school, children get the talk about unwanted touching. “It’s really important to be clear with them about what is and what isn’t permissible and the lines are when dealing with other people in relationships.” Some states have detailed standards Rhode Island, West Virginia and the District of Columbia provide clear standards on topics of sexual health …

Could "consent education" really work to prevent sexual assault?
6 years, 6 months ago

Could "consent education" really work to prevent sexual assault?

Salon  

While it's never far from the headlines in the #MeToo era, the ongoing issue of sexual consent is back in the news again. Feminist writer Moira Donegan recently expressed skepticism that "consent education" can be a big part of the answer, tweeting that "masculinity and male heterosexuality have been constructed in such a way that for a lot of abusers, …

‘Consent classes’ to be given to children as young as four in schools
6 years, 8 months ago

‘Consent classes’ to be given to children as young as four in schools

The Independent  

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We cannot trust schools to provide sex education when they can't even keep their institutions safe
6 years, 11 months ago

We cannot trust schools to provide sex education when they can't even keep their institutions safe

The Independent  

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Make Every Class Sex Ed Class
7 years ago

Make Every Class Sex Ed Class

Huff Post  

Mac99 via Getty Images For over a century, social conservatives have demanded a ban on sex education. Whether they were pushing for outright bans on curricula they perceived as tax-funded perversion of innocent schoolchildren, or promoting more subtle erosions of sex ed in the form of “abstinence-only” programs that often take the “sex” out of “sex education,” banning sex ed …

How Sex Educators Talk To Their Sons About Consent
7 years ago

How Sex Educators Talk To Their Sons About Consent

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING With the rise of the Me Too and Time’s Up movements and mounting allegations of sexual misconduct against many high-profile figures across industries, it’s clear that our society is in need of some serious conversations about consent. “It’s important to introduce the concept early, so children start understanding that their bodies belong to them ― and that …

Why mandatory uni courses on sexual consent are unlikely to fix the problem
7 years, 1 month ago

Why mandatory uni courses on sexual consent are unlikely to fix the problem

ABC  

In the wake of the findings of the Australian Human Rights Commission 2017 national report on sexual assault and sexual harassment at Australian universities, a number of universities have introduced mandatory courses on sexual consent for new students. By the time young people get to university, it's far too late to be initiating education on sexual consent. Getting enthusiastic about …

The Power Of Inclusive Sex Education
7 years, 7 months ago

The Power Of Inclusive Sex Education

Huff Post  

Brendan McDermid / Reuters By Jeanne Sager The night the cable channel Freeform aired an LGBTQ sex-education-themed episode of its teen drama The Fosters earlier this spring, Madison Russell spent the evening in front of her television with tears rolling down her face. The state of Washington, one of the latter four, passed the Healthy Youth Act in 2007, mandating …

Schools may be forced to teach children about porn and sexting, reports suggests
8 years, 3 months ago

Schools may be forced to teach children about porn and sexting, reports suggests

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ministers are reportedly planning to make schools teach children about pornography, domestic violence, sexting …

Thousands share their experiences of sexual harassment in school after calls for compulsory sex education
8 years, 7 months ago

Thousands share their experiences of sexual harassment in school after calls for compulsory sex education

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How much do you know about sex education in UK schools?
8 years, 8 months ago

How much do you know about sex education in UK schools?

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We Need Better Sex Education, Author And Mother Argues. Here’s Why.
8 years, 11 months ago

We Need Better Sex Education, Author And Mother Argues. Here’s Why.

Huff Post  

HarperCollins When it comes to sexual assault, there seems to be a flood of specious statistics, and a dry well of reliable information. For kids who aren’t yet sexually active, or who feel like they have more to learn, that can mean reading YA books, writing fan fiction, and, yes, watching porn.” “Whereas earlier generations of media-literate, feminist-identified women saw …

Children deserve better sex education for modern life
9 years ago

Children deserve better sex education for modern life

The Independent  

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The rise of sex education for adults
9 years ago

The rise of sex education for adults

ABC  

Putting condoms on bananas is out; feeling good is in. The group has assembled for an adult sex education class called 'Pleasure 101', run by Vanessa Muradian, a charismatic sexologist and yoga teacher who refers to women's genitals using the Sanskrit word "yoni". Last July the University of Oregon Health Centre launched SexPositive, a comprehensive sex ed app that provides …

What teens have to know about sex (Opinion)
9 years, 6 months ago

What teens have to know about sex (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Debra Hauser is the president and executive director of Advocates for Youth and vice chair of the board of directors for the American Sexual Health Association. Story highlights Debra Hauser: Sex-ed battles still rage on, but question already settled among health experts Educated teens are less likely to have pregnancies and disease, she says Hauser says abstinence-only education …

Sex and Relationships Education is too important to leave to chance
10 years, 6 months ago

Sex and Relationships Education is too important to leave to chance

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Majority of parents believe sex education should be compulsory in secondary schools, YouGov poll reveals
11 years, 10 months ago

Majority of parents believe sex education should be compulsory in secondary schools, YouGov poll reveals

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