This story is presented as part of The Stranger’s Back to School 2018 issue, out now.
The good news is this: Contrary to what you may have been taught, sex is good, healthy, and enjoyable. I want you and all your idiot college friends to have as much of it as you want, but you need to be safe and responsible while doing so. The most important component of that safety and responsibility can be boiled down to a single word: consent.
Sex without the consent of your partner is not sex—it’s rape. And because the world we live in is ludicrous, it falls to me to inform you, male-identified student, that 100 percent of the responsibility for rape falls on the person who does the raping. You should not, you may not, you must not ever rape anyone.
Obvious, right? Apparently not.
