I was born in the midcentury. As a teenager 16, 17 I spent a lot of time with undergraduates at an elite university. I was sometimes drunk at parties though not with spirits. I was innocent ( literally). Sometimes I even slept cuddled in bed with young men in my group of friends. I shudder to think of this now but not one ever touched me sexually. There were no rape jokes etc. The group I was in was popular. The restraint was not due to people being especially serious - on the contrary parties were wild and fun and non-stop.
There was patriarchy in those days, and a patronising attitude to girls in some ways. I am not telling of this to say these were the good old days. Of course there must have been date rapes then too, and marriage was considered to confer permanent consent to sex.
But what has happened to make the present horror evident in the testimonies about these schools?
On a separate point, earlier this week “24 Hours in Police Custody” there was a case where two young girls had been raped by the same man following initially having been in contact with him on Facebook then meeting up with him. They had also sent him nude photos. What was shocking was that it became clear that the CPS might not prosecute because of the photos. Luckily, because the girls had such similar, but entirely independent, stories, and because one had happened to tell him she was 15 he was charged and found guilty of rape.
The testimonies related to DC frequently mentioned the pressure the girls were under to send nude photos. Are girls being educated to know not only about the danger of revenge porn and blackmail, but also that, effectively, in practice, should the boy they sent it to rape them at a later point, they would be deemed by CPS to have given consent?