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Healthy Sex, Moving beyond Legal Consent Framing in Sex Education: A Call to Action in US Colleges and Universities

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Title: Healthy Sex, Moving beyond Legal Consent Framing in Sex Education: A Call to Action in US Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Authors: Destiny Peterson (ORCID 0000-0002-9077-0329)
Source: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning. 2025 25(2):171-183.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 13
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sex Education, Sexuality, Consent, Literature Reviews, Rape, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards, Compliance (Legal), Health Behavior
DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2023.2296469
ISSN: 1468-1811
1472-0825
Abstract: This paper provides an extensive literature review of current approaches to sexual consent and demonstrates their insufficiency for teaching higher education students about healthy sex. Their overemphasis on the giving of consent to the detriment of attention to the process of gaining consent, as well as their inappropriate utilisation of incomplete legal frames, make them inadequate for preventing rape in a world shaped by gendered social norms. Additionally, these inadequacies make current approaches even less appropriate for the more aim of teaching the broader and vital topic of healthy sex. The goal of this paper is to challenge the way sexual consent education is currently framed in the USA, recommend a paradigm shift regarding perspectives on sexual consent education, and provide suggestions for formative research concerning the provision of university-level, interdisciplinary healthy sex education courses.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2025
Accession Number: EJ1466427
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:This paper provides an extensive literature review of current approaches to sexual consent and demonstrates their insufficiency for teaching higher education students about healthy sex. Their overemphasis on the giving of consent to the detriment of attention to the process of gaining consent, as well as their inappropriate utilisation of incomplete legal frames, make them inadequate for preventing rape in a world shaped by gendered social norms. Additionally, these inadequacies make current approaches even less appropriate for the more aim of teaching the broader and vital topic of healthy sex. The goal of this paper is to challenge the way sexual consent education is currently framed in the USA, recommend a paradigm shift regarding perspectives on sexual consent education, and provide suggestions for formative research concerning the provision of university-level, interdisciplinary healthy sex education courses.
ISSN:1468-1811
1472-0825
DOI:10.1080/14681811.2023.2296469