All freshers and new undergraduates attending Oxford and Cambridge universities are to be given compulsory “sexual consent” lessons. The objective – launched by the National Union of Students – is to prevent rape and halt sexual harassment. It is also an attempt to stamp out the “lad culture”. The students are to be taught that when it comes to sexual engagement of any kind, “No means no”.
This isn’t entirely a new idea. In fact, the Catholic Church was supporting something similar in the 16th century when Baldassare Castiglione, Count of Casatico, published his Book of the Courtier in 1528.
