Jennifer S. Hirsch

This is a book that any parent of college age kids needs to read. All colleges are now required to report sexual assaults because of the Cleary Act, which is this is a current topic on campuses like the one I work at. There are other larger underlying problems like stalking behavior, and the correlation between assaults and football games. The real issues are that parents don't see their college age kids as sexually active adults so they are not prepared to handle these situations. The college kids get drunk or high and end up "hooking up." The boys reciwve peer pressure to treat women like conquests, and not focus on reciprocity which is the whole basis of social relationships. As the mother of two young adult males I have hammered the concept of consent, the importance of using protection, and that are women are to be treated with respect. It's a males role to protect women and treat them with love, if they understand that they won't get into misunderstandings about what the context of a sexual relationship is.… (mais)