"Every hookup between two intoxicated people on campus is nonconsensual."
That's what the director of Colorado College's sex education program says in a video that's gone viral since it was posted on the school's website last week.
The point of the video, which emphasizes the importance of having a good time, is to point out that intoxicated people can't consent to sexual activity, the Daily Dot reports.
"When thinking about this under the tutelage of the school's NSO sex education, every hookup between two intoxicated people on campus is nonconsensual," Shafia Zaloom says.
"The phrase 'cried rape,' (an allusion to 'crying wolf') usually following situations involving psychoactive substances, plants seeds of doubt in an individual's recollection of the sexual events that took place, exploiting their shame and often lack of memory to create a narrative of once-informed consent that was later regretted."
Zaloom, who says hookup culture is all about "self-fulfillment and sexual gratification," adds that "the issue of consent while intoxicated is inherently ambiguous, especially for young people still exploring their own sexual needs and interests."
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