Thank you for the question.
There are a couple of ways. One, we know that without comprehensive sex education, which most youth do not have and most adults have not had, we are not talking about the important issues around our sexual rights. We're just talking about bodies, anatomy and those kinds of things, which are not what we need as tools to go into relationships or tools to go into the world and actually interact with people who are attempting to get us to do things that we may or may not want to do, or even to initiate sex that we do want.
We know that this is a foundation. Without that, we're limited in what we can prevent. It's possible to do that really well, as we know from research, starting really young with what is developmentally appropriate and then expanding. That is a foundation. In fact, my program, which is the only university-based program that actually shows substantial and sustained decreases in sexual assault, has a three-hour emancipatory sex education unit as part of it. We think that really helps with the verbal resistance and response to verbal coercion. Knowing what you want is a foundation for then being able to deal in the world with all of these kinds of attempts to get women and girls to do what they don't want to do.