By: @RosemaryGoring Literary Editor/Columnist, Herald Scotland
Young men going to Cambridge University may soon find themselves attending not just lectures, seminars and tutorials, but also sessions called "consent classes". Shocked by the results of a recent survey of women students in which 8% said they were sexually assaulted and almost half had been groped or touched without their say-so, 15 colleges have agreed to hold these workshops during the autumn term.
How depressing that some of the brightest teenagers in the country need to be formally instructed in the difference between acceptable sexual advances and harassment, or worse. But if only it were a blight confined to Cambridge. In her recent BBC documentary about misogyny, Kirsty Wark highlighted the gross sexism found at Stirling University, where in one instance members of its male hockey team sang a deeply offensive and violent song about women while travelling on a public bus.
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