@healwithbritt: I’ve spent nearly fifteen years teaching a program called Rape Culture: A Survivor’s Perspective, and one thing I continue to believe deeply is this: men are not inherently bad. Making men the enemy will NOT prevent sexual violence. I say it in my programs, and I’ll say it here: we need men in this work. Not ashamed of their power, but empowered to use it well. Primary prevention asks us to intervene before the assault by RE-humanizing one another, cultivating empathy, teaching embodiment, talking openly about sex and intimacy, and creating cultures where men hold their friends to the same standards and values they hold themselves. A few places to begin: • For boys/young men: Lads: A Guide to Respect and Consent for Teenage Boys by Alan Bissett, Respect by Inti Chavez Perez, and Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein.
• For parents raising boys: Talk to Your Boys by Joanna Schroeder + Christopher Pepper and How to Raise a Boy by Michael Reichert.
• For younger children: Jayneen Sanders’ body-safety and consent books, including the Little BIG Chats series. Start conversations about bodies, boundaries, consent and safe relationships early…not when they’re already teenagers.
• For understanding campus sexual violence: watch The Hunting Ground.
• At home: talk about sex. Talk about pleasure, consent, pornography, autonomy, interpersonal cues, respect and what healthy intimacy actually looks like. If we avoid these conversations, our children still receive a sex education. We’ve simply handed the curriculum over to culture. And to survivors watching another case dominate the news, I see you. And I’m sorry. You deserve a world invested not only in responding to what happened to us, but in preventing it from happening to someone else. 🤎

Britt Piper, SEP

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Saturday 03 October 2026 00:10:54 GMT