Last night, I was having a conversation with DH and a male friend. We were talking about sex education.
Male friend has an 11yo son, and said how he thinks it's important to talk about consent with him. BUT that it's difficult as there are thousands of years of evolution to take into account. He quickly clarified that he was not excusing males not asking for consent, but then said again that you need to factor in biology.
To which my husband agreed and said "If you ignore biology then you're ignoring half of the problem." It felt a bit like they were excusing men not being able to control themselves and it didn't sit right.
We got interrupted by kids at that point and didn't return to the conversation, but it's still playing on my mind. AIBU?