LESSENING SEXUAL VIOLENCE THROUGH SEX ED - Seema Anand StoryTelling
Channel: Seema Anand StoryTelling
Date: 2023-04-20

During an online interaction with some senior school students we discussed how sexual violence is often tied to “rejection”!
I wanted to point out that along with many other things, the idea of rejection is also something that needs to be normalised.
They were surprised to note that although all of them had faced it, several times, it had still not struck them that it was “normal”.
And suddenly realising it had substantially diminished the bruised ego.
Just as attraction and desire are the most normal human instincts, rejection is the most normal human reaction.
Just because you like someone doesn’t mean they have to like you back.

The idea of ‘rejection’ presents one of the biggest problems in the world of sexual health, both how we react to the present situation and how it will impact attitudes towards future partners.

We will all be attracted to dozens of people in our lifetime and most of them will reject us.
It’s not just you, it’s everyone.
If we can understand this, we can start to control so much of the sexual violence that we are seeing currently.