Antioch has a history of being a fairly radical place. ![]() So in 1991, a group of women at Antioch began a campaign to promote a culture free of sexual violence at Antioch. If someone doesn’t want to have sex with you, don’t have sex with them. We’re going to talk to you all about sexual health and S.O.P.P. All of these questions that we were talking about at Antioch in our so-called bubble have now become dinner table conversation. That’s a tough one, isn’t it? Nonverbal, it’s very tricky. The difference is that people are talking about it now. The difference is not necessarily that we are where we want to be. If, from the point you meet somebody, you’re not seeing them as a person, that’s a problem. As it reaches the bedroom, as it reaches this male-female coming together, women are saying what? Women are saying, “Us too.” I see consent as a human issue. It’s just crazy to me that it’s still an issue. What is misconduct, and what isn’t? Is it the job of men to now decide when women are capable of consent? We did this 25 years ago. The same conflicts that we had in our discussions in the early 1990s at Antioch College are happening now. The person of the year is the #MeToo movement. I had a problem - and I still have a problem - with people feeling like they can’t slow down enough to figure out what the other person is really feeling. I don’t think the sexual offense policy was anti-sex. You might want to bring your lawyer along. Well, if Antioch College has its way, campus smooching will involve so many questions and answers. They were publicly mocked even “S.N.L.” weighed in. ![]() ![]() Transcript Did These Women See #MeToo Coming? In the 1990s, young women at Antioch College created the country’s first affirmative consent policy for sex.
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