Your Sexual Rights


It is important that both women and men learn and exercise their sexual rights and responsibilities.

WOMEN should know--

YOU have the right to:

*Dress as you please.

*Agree to have sex with someone and then change your mind at any time.

*Be treated with respect at ALL times.

WOMEN have the responsibility to:

*Talk openly and honestly about your sexual expectations, wishes and intentions.

*Assert yourself--by standing up for your rights.

*Take an equal role in your relationships with men.

*Reject sexual stereotypes that define women as passive, weak and irrational.

MEN should know--

YOU DO NOT have the right to pressure or force a woman to have sex, even if:

*You paid for her dinner or a night out.

*You've had sex with her before.

*She agrees to have sex with you, then changes her mind.

*She dresses provocatively, flirts, or comes on to you.

*You met her at a bar or picked her up hitchhiking.

*You think women enjoy being forced to have sex or want to be persuaded.

The copyright of the article Your Sexual Rights in Rape Prevention/Survival is owned by Flora Thomas-Guillory. Permission to republish Your Sexual Rights in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.

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