The New School in New York City has released an awesome new gender-neutral, non-orientation-specific poster to encourage the practice of enthusiastic consent… For everyone.
It features faceless silhouettes and suggested dialogues between the pair on how best to communicate their sexual goals and to check in with one another. Too much material on consent and sexual assault erases male victims or casts men as default aggressors, but this poster clearly and unmistakably rejects that model.
Bravo to the New School for moving us forward in preventing sexual assault!
can we buy a poster of this?
I do think this sort of poster will be helpful. I can easily bring to mind 3 situations from when I was young where, in hindsight, I feel that I was violated or pressured into having sex. I don’t think the other individual meant to violate me but, as I didn’t have a lot of sexual intelligence or confidence in my own boundaries, I just didn’t know how to say “no”. This kind of dialogue would have helped me to avoid these situations as well as helped the individual from making the mistake of ‘abusing’ the situation or abusing such… Read more »
I think its kind of ridiculous. The underlying logic is that normal everyday people are sexually assaulting each other. This isn’t validated by any of the statistics on these crimes.
Men/Women who sexually assault women know what they are doing, they know its wrong and they do it anyway. A poster will not stop them.
And normal men/women are not the same type of people as the ones who commit these crimes
I think that’s a misconception. Many normal people think that the other person is just playing hard to get, and so ends up pressuring them into having sex. That doesn’t make the other person feel any less violated, just because the initiator didn’t think they were raping anyone. Obviously, if someone is having sex with someone who is passed out, they have to know they are raping someone. But in cases where Person B is just silent, Person A is likely to think “Oh, they’re just quiet.” when Person B is thinking “How do I get out of this? Maybe… Read more »
It’s a good poster. I think it’ll be effective.
I think what you are referrring to is called Men Rei , and unfort it usually doesn’t apply to sexual assault and AFAIK, it is the only crime where it doesn’t apply.
@forweg: Yes and No, it really depends on your definition of rape doesn’t it.
Perhaps just perhaps what this poster will do is prevent someone who has no intent to rape but who has sex with someone who is fully commited to the act from engaging in that sex thereby commiting rape.
“Perhaps just perhaps what this poster will do is prevent someone who has no intent to rape but who has sex with someone who is fully commited to the act from engaging in that sex thereby commiting rape.”
That’s not committing an act of rape, there is no wrong doing in the mind on the part of the alleged rapist
here. To be guilty of a crime that carries such a harsh punishment a person should ideally be guilty of it in the first place.
I think that’s the point. It will help to avoid those cases where one person feels raped and the other feels falsely accused and no resolution will ever be sufficient for ether party.
Well, it’s nice to see the usual misandry is absent, but… do posters like this actually serve any meaningful purpose? Will the type of person who’s going to rape or sexually assault someone really be convinced otherwise by a poster?
I think it’s more to catch those who think they have consent but don’t, some may mistake silence as an ok when it could be fear for instance.
Probably not, but it might help to avoid misunderstandings about consent which could hurt both people.
Rapist not raping because s/he sees poster? Doubt it stops them raping but it underlines that rape is not cool.
But posters like this do serve a meaningful purpose for KIDS who are still learning. Esp if they don’t have adults in their life who want to talk to them straight up about sex to begin with, much less “sex manners.”
Send me the number and I’ll contribute whatever I can. This thing needs to take off!
See, that wasn’t that hard. Why did it take this long?
Bravo Peter
Sends a good message 🙂 I fully approve of “yes means yes” provided that it remains an ideal to be strived for rather than a legal test of consent.
That’s the real thing, not political hate propaganda masquerading as a PSA.
Brilliant! More awareness campaigns like this, please.
This poster is completely retarded and completely misunderstands how relationships are formed in the first place: http://goo.gl/obiC