Utah: Change the Affirmative Consent Conversation BEFORE Sexual Assault Happens @deseretnews

In our opinion: Targeting campus sexual assaults with preventative methods, not just post-assault prosecution

The state of New York is now poised to join California in changing the language in laws dealing with sexual assault to help reduce a high rate of sex crimes on college campuses. While tougher laws may lead to more arrests and convictions, a new study out of Canada offers stunning evidence of the effectiveness of efforts aimed more at prevention than prosecution.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that women who receive training on resisting sexual assault are much less likely to be victimized. The research deals with a specific program designed in Canada that deserves to be replicated and put into place on all college campuses.

The study shows that female students who participated in the Enhanced Assess Acknowledge Act Sexual Assault Resistance Program, or EAAA, experienced 46 percent fewer rapes and 63 percent fewer attempted rapes over a period of a year than students in the control group who did not participate in the 12-hour resistance course. Those numbers represent an extraordinary degree of effectiveness achieved by simply empowering women to be more aware of unwanted sexual advances and better prepared to resist them.

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