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You Can Help Prevent Sexual Assault
Sexual Assualt is cultural epidemic. There are some easy things that everyone can do to help stop sexual assault.
- Recognize that a person neither asks for nor deserves to be raped ever.
- Don’t blame rape victims for the violence perpetrated against them.
- Know that silence does not equal consent.
- Take responsibility for your own sexuality; don’t let it be defined by your partner, the media, or anyone else.
- Don’t drink and/or do drugs beyond your ability to control your body or environment.
- Don’t use alcohol and/or drugs to get someone to have sex with you.
- If you see something that makes you think someone is in danger of being assaulted: Step in.
- Men: Become an ally to the women in your life – do not participate in sexist behavior by objectifying or stereotyping women.
- Women: Participate in a free self-defense class at the Center for Violence-Free Relationships.
- Find out what your local K-12 school board’s policy is on anti-rape and violence prevention education and get involved. If it is not proactive, change it!
- Lobby your local, state, and federal legislators to provide adequate funding for rape crisis centers.
If you have been a victim of sexual assault either by a stranger, acquaintance or an intimate, know there is help out there and CALL.
