Flyers on flirting? The tricky issue of sexual consent on campus
Boundaries around consent on college campuses are changing. But are we are at risk of reducing flirtation to an anxiety-ridden affair?
Students of Trinity College Dublin: a nationwide study found that one in eight students had had an unwanted sexual experience during their third level years. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
The rules of the dating game are changing. For Trinity College students in Dublin nightclubs, it can help to have a flyer with advice on sexual consent close to hand. It spells out in an easy acronym: FRIES or “freely-given, retractable, informed, enthusiastic and specific”.