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California Trains Kids To Ask For Consent Every 10 Minutes During Sex
Daily Caller ^ | 10/14/15 | Blake Neff

Posted on 10/15/2015 2:53:21 AM PDT by markomalley

A look at the new landscape of sex education published by The New York Times contains an eye-opening anecdote: In California, teachers are telling kids to get consent every ten minutes during sex to avoid committing rape.

The article is about the brave new world created by affirmative consent, or “yes means yes,” which holds that a person must obtain explicit prior consent for every sexual act or else be considered to have committed sexual assault.The standard isn’t limited to sex itself; a person would also need explicit affirmative consent to kiss somebody, too.

All of this is in contrast to the prevailing criminal standard, known as “no means no,” where sexual assault occurs when a person proceeds with sexual activity despite an explicit refusal of consent. While this remains the criminal standard, California made a major shift last year by requiring all school disciplinary bodies to use affirmative consent, and it also required state sex education classes to use the standard as well. (RELATED: Students Explain Affirmative Consent With Cringeworthy Video)

That shift means a change in how sex education is handled, and the Times suggests that kids are finding affirmative consent to be a somewhat difficult standard to grasp. Among other things, some kids are getting the impression they need to set a timer during their intimate encounters to make sure their casual hookup doesn’t accidentally become a rape.

“What does that mean — you have to say ‘yes’ every 10 minutes?” one tenth grader is quoted asking sex ed instructor Shafia Zaloom.

“Pretty much,” Zaloom replied, adding that “It’s not a timing thing, but whoever initiates things to another level has to ask.”

If Zaloom’s advice is confusing, it isn’t because she lacks experience teaching the standard. The Times says she “has written a curriculum for affirmative consent programs that is being used throughout the country.”

But despite Zaloom’s expertise kids are still finding that affirmative consent is hard to mesh with the way people actually have sex (or, given their age, how they imagine people having sex). When given a list of phrases that could be used to gain consent, such as “Can I touch you there?”, students were dismissive.

“They’re all really awkward and bizarre,” one girl said.


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To: Fhios

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41 posted on 10/15/2015 4:30:20 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: laker_dad
What is this thread about?

-PJ

42 posted on 10/15/2015 4:31:54 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: johniegrad
> This is all lawyer think. There’s too damn many lawyers. No one in their right mind thinks in these terms.

Bingo, and liberal lawyer-think at that

43 posted on 10/15/2015 4:32:05 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: fatnotlazy
So when are the schools going to teach the kids ....

Schools cannot teach that which they neither understand nor know.

Individuals within a school system might, but the Beast that is "Public Education no longer does.

Correction: "Public Education" does know, but is feverishly working to destroy knowledge and implementation of God's plan for marriage, sex and children.

44 posted on 10/15/2015 4:36:34 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: markomalley
he said she said...

45 posted on 10/15/2015 4:38:00 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Zoom! Right over my head! :)


46 posted on 10/15/2015 4:39:57 AM PDT by laker_dad
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To: markomalley
Perhaps they should just bring a lawyer every time they have sex?

"Yeah...a little to the left...ok, that looks 'consentual'..."

47 posted on 10/15/2015 4:41:52 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Vaquero

Where Boners go to die. LOL


48 posted on 10/15/2015 4:47:58 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: markomalley

So this is what is bing taught in CA schools,huh. The left has thoroughly won in the schools. The schools are corrupting and destroying kids. Hard to believe that the Bible was once taught in schools. Government run schools are a complete joke.


49 posted on 10/15/2015 4:48:40 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: KC_Lion

That’s what I’ve always seen in the movies, anyway. ;)


50 posted on 10/15/2015 4:49:13 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: markomalley

My hope is that someday an enlightened future generation will wonder why parents who let their kids go to government schools weren’t jailed for child abuse. That we let socialists dominate our kids daily lives for 13+ years is sick.


51 posted on 10/15/2015 4:49:33 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: markomalley

Anybody else sick & tired of our hyper-porn society?


52 posted on 10/15/2015 4:50:18 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This Hispanic wants a wall, the National Guard, and turrets guarding our border)
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To: OttawaFreeper
Are they going to recommend dashboard cameras as well (sort of what the police have)?

Sure, then they can be prosecuted for kiddie porn as well. /s

53 posted on 10/15/2015 5:02:40 AM PDT by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: 4rcane

Yes, and it has always been that way. (hope you are being sarcastic)


54 posted on 10/15/2015 5:03:53 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: 4rcane

Great for stop-watch sales!


55 posted on 10/15/2015 5:11:46 AM PDT by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: AustinBill

Check my post #15 concerning Bob Crane (of “Hogan’s Heroes” fame). We all kind of got to know about certain aspects of his personal life, didn’t we?


56 posted on 10/15/2015 5:17:04 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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To: laker_dad

Paradise by the Dashboard lights


57 posted on 10/15/2015 5:27:45 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Izzy Dunne

That was my first thought.


58 posted on 10/15/2015 5:42:29 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: MARKUSPRIME
Where Boners go to die. LOL


59 posted on 10/15/2015 5:43:38 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Did he get into trouble for recording it without her consent? Guess it beats a rape charge.


60 posted on 10/15/2015 5:45:04 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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