"Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus"

In recent years, college campuses have come to the forefront of national conversations about sexual assault: its causes, the stigma survivors endure when they report, the consequences (or lack thereof) perpetrators face if exposed. How can we make college campuses safer so that sexual assault isn’t such a prevalent danger? How can external social pressures even before college predispose kids to commit assault? How can parents start dialogues with their children to teach them what constitutes healthy sexual behavior? And how can we change high school sex education in ways that make assaults less likely, and people’s sexual lives more fulfilling?

Jennifer Hirsh is the co-author of Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus.

Part of the Assembly Series at WashU. Co-sponsored by the Department of African & African American Studies