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Schools Preach 'Enthusiastic' Yes In Sex Consent Education By Emmanuella Grinberg

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“Schools preach ‘enthusiastic’ yes in sex consent education” by Emmanuella Grinberg (CNN, 09/29/2015) is about the measure that school should take to prevent sexual misconduct among students. Many female students have reported that they being raped either forcefully or while they were passed out drunk. As a result, some schools created affirmative consent law, in which schools prohibit any sexual activity if both partners don not a mutual agreement on having sex. “It could define a great deal of sexual activity as sexual activity as “sexual assault” and undermine due process rights of the accused. I like the fact that there are people out there working to stop sexual violence. However the step that are being taken may not be good news for

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