One of these state requirements that is not entirely useless is the mandatory affirmative consent training. (Once again, we do not mandate anything. It’s a state thing. The student registration system shuts down and doesn’t let students register for any courses next semester until they do the online training. Professors have zero control over this process.)
I’ve looked at the mandatory consent training, and it seems pretty innocuous. To me, everything it teaches one about sex is extremely basic. But given the low sexual literacy among the young people, I’m sure much of the training can be quite a revelation to some of the students.
Of course, the whole issue of a university being charged with supervising students’ sex lives is pretty icky. Besides, one has got to wonder how the young people who don’t go to college fit into this picture. Should they and the college students never have any sexual encounters with each other? This is all very weird. But at least this particular state requirement might have some useful effects.
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