Teenage boys uncertain about navigating consent and sexual culture, finds new study
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While typical consent education in secondary schools may rationalise or provide a ‘road map’ for consent, teenage boys feel uncertain and anxious about navigating the perceived realities of youth sexual culture, according to new research from the University of Surrey.
By Dr Emily Setty
The research explores how boys are being taught about consent at school and how they relate to and interpret educational messages about consent.
The study involved classroom observations, individual focus groups with boys, and discussions with teachers. Participating schools included a co-educational academy in a relatively middle-class, monocultural (white British) semi-rural area; a boys’ academy in a socioeconomically deprived urban area serving predominantly black and minority ethnic pupils; and an independent boys’ school in an urban area serving a relatively socioeconomically privileged cohort.
Dr Emily Setty, author of the study and Senior Lecturer in Criminology said:
‘Abstractly, most of t...
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