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12th
When I was in high school, I was asked to be part of a committee to redesign the sex-ed curriculum (we don’t have abstinence only education in my part of the world). I kept trying to ask that we discuss consent and pleasure in sex ed. Partly because as a teen, these issues were way more important and confusing to me than the biological mechanics. I asked that we hear not only that “girls have a right to say no, and boys have to listen” but also that girls can say yes, and that boys can say no. I was amazed, because the adults kept repeating back to me, “so you think it is important to learn that girls can say no and boys have to listen.” It was as though they could not even hear me.
