Universities: Lectures on sexual conduct

All universities should establish compulsory sexual consent workshops to teach students that "no means no", it has been suggested.

Workshops are already in place at a number of universities - where they can be taught respect for women.

Cases that have come to light recently include a company which sent new students a "shaglist", where they could record details of their sexual conquests while at university.

Sajid Javid, the Business Secretary, has asked Universities UK to set up a task force to tackle the problem - ordering it to come up with a code of practice within the next 12 months.

Nine universities - Oxford, King's College London, LSE, Warwick, Leeds, Queen May's London, Sussex, Bradford and Cardiff - have already joined with the NUS to launch a project to stamp out harassment and sexual violence

You can't teach people not to rape people. Drunk people aren't going to be like 'oh no I better not take home this half naked drunk girl trying to feel me up incase she says I raped her'

I beg to differ.

One of the problems we have is that a lot of young men aren't actually all that clear on what is and is not acceptable behaviour. If we spend a little bit of time making sure they understand, then a significant proportion of them may start to think a little bit more carefully before groping the girl in the club/making sexually aggressive remarks to girls on facebook/sticking their dick up that girl who is so drunk she is basically unconscious.

I'm at Cambridge and they did consent workshops in a large number of colleges in freshers last year, and they're happening again this year. I think it's a great idea - it's not something ever discussed in school sex ed or similar, and for a lot of people they're not clear on it at all. I mean, did anyone see that 'sex in class' programme on C4, and the attitudes of both boys and girls towards sex? It was really quite concerning. All in all, I can't see it doing any harm.

Nice! I'm happy to hear that Cambridge has been involved with these workshops too I guess you learnt quite a bit from the workshops if you went to any last year?

They should also teach people not to kill, steal, fraud tax, etc. I'm sure it will work.

I beg to differ.

One of the problems we have is that a lot of young men aren't actually all that clear on what is and is not acceptable behaviour. If we spend a little bit of time making sure they understand, then a significant proportion of them may start to think a little bit more carefully before groping the girl in the club/making sexually aggressive remarks to girls on facebook/sticking their dick up that girl who is so drunk she is basically unconscious.

So you're sexist and you want to punish a whole group for the actions of a minority?

Who is being punished exactly?

Is this really any more of a punishment than the compulsory fire awareness talk that I had to attend when I first moved into halls?

Everyone and yes

They should also teach people not to kill, steal, fraud tax, etc. I'm sure it will work.

Imagine being ordered to do something, whether or not you're a rapist or not.

Why don't they have these as optional classes, or for actual convicted rapists.

Can you explain how "everyone" is being punished?

Well yes... they should teach people those things if they are in doubt as to what counts as theft or fraud exactly... I'm not sure what your point is.

because they're there to help you, to make sure you don't get yourself into trouble.


You underestimate the amount of confusion there is about what exactly constitutes rape.

I beg to differ.

One of the problems we have is that a lot of young men aren't actually all that clear on what is and is not acceptable behaviour. If we spend a little bit of time making sure they understand, then a significant proportion of them may start to think a little bit more carefully before groping the girl in the club/making sexually aggressive remarks to girls on facebook/sticking their dick up that girl who is so drunk she is basically unconscious.