Consent, or a lack thereof, goes alarmingly unacknowledged in films and television shows, and now, Australian organisation Consent Labs are campaigning to incorporate "lack of consent" in the classification system.
Not-for-profit organisation Consent Labs has partnered with TBWASydney and Eleven to petition the Classifications Board to introduce a classification to call out “Lack of Consent” in film and television.
Mean Girls, “don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and die”.
While their sex education wasn t as dire as that iconic movie scene, for Dr Joyce Yu and Angelique Wan, their high school lessons still left much to be desired.
“We loved our school, our school was great, but the sex ed that we received was just so anatomical,” Angelique told
The Feed.
“I just remember videos of cartoons about sex and ‘this is how to not get pregnant’ and a bit about STIs,” Joyce added.
“Missing from the conversation was, obviously, language around consent.”
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