It is an Unfortunate reality that young women nowadays have to be aware of wrongful sexual activity that exists in the environments they learn and live in. While reading this article it was shockingly disturbing to me that rape culture and sexual violence has been accepted by a patriarchal society over many years. A system that has historically let many young sex offenders off the hook while many women suffer the mental consequences of the experiences.  Then I start to think to about the accounts from the article and how many young women in the article share many parallels to friends & peers around my age group who confided their secrets within me. Those women who will be unnamed for the most part had suffered abuse with a boyfriend that had taken advantage of them and didn’t know how to adjust from that. It was no coincidence that all of these personal accounts had happened when they were very young. These ages range from 11-17. Some had taken, therapy, drugs, one even tried to find guidance through Church. Strangely non of them had reported their accounts and it had startled me. Many of them felt they weren’t going to be rightfully justified so why bother. One had consented but didn’t know what she had consented too and didn’t know how to handle that sexual encounter.

I feel that us as the upcoming new generation has to be open issues like this and inform teens at a young age the right from wrongs of sexual abuse. To have teachings of the the deeper meanings of the word “consent”. That sometimes it’s okay to change your mind in the moment. Give the youth clear indications and when and where sexual abuse is taking place; also give the youth indictions on when to have to diffuse those types of activities.