Talking to Teens

You can talk to teens all you want about sex. But if you want to drive home [healthy:wealthy] messages about consent, maybe you should have them watch: "In the Criminal Justice system sexually-based [offences:crimes] are considered especially heinous..."Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Really. Compared with other TV shows, anyway. Because a study finds that college [students:people] who watched episodes of the various Law & Orders had a better understanding of sexual consent issues than those who watched two other crime procedural franchises, NCIS and CSI. The research is in the Journal of Health Communication.For the study, researchers asked [more:less] than 300 college freshmen if they agreed or disagreed that if a woman is raped she is at least somewhat responsible, a concept called rape myth acceptance. The students were also asked about their intentions to seek consent for sexual [activity:crime] and their intentions to refuse sexual activity.