https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-face-a-crisis-in-sexual-consent-among-the-young-qmnpt0q00
Sometimes, and far outside politics, a poll can startle. After a decade’s increase in rape accusations, the Crown Prosecution Service has just published the first survey for five years about public attitudes to that crime. The standout discovery is that the youngest generation, for all our perceptions about their virtuous idealism, are shaping to be dangerously ignorant. Far more so than their elders.
About half the 18 to 24-year-olds surveyed thought it isn’t rape if the victim doesn’t fight or doesn’t report it immediately. The same number believe that if you’re in a relationship consent is always assumed, and that if you’re drunk or drugged you aren’t to be held responsible. Only a third realised that an agreement to meet and have sex is not necessarily the same as consent in the moment. Barely more grasped that rape need not involve physical violence.
Today’s easy porn, swiping right for a hook-up, obsession with “hotness” and polyamory and the need to be adventurous and “respect your kink” has not made for gentleness or equality. Treating other bodies as recreational facilities and human relationships as a genital gymnasium has not been helpful. The misconceptions revealed in 18 to 24-year-olds have clearly festered through schooldays: we know that from the “Everyone’s Invited” campaign and the rise in assaults in school.
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