Hi Shauli, First of all, thank you for publishing such an article with your true opinions on the issues of sexual assault and consent. Without people like you revealing how they might feel internally about problems that congregate our society today, we may never be able to change public opinion and educate the majority. That being said, I will now take the time to explain why your views are problematic and pose a couple of questions that may help both you and me understand what your viewpoint is on all of this. I hope you will be able to consider my response and take it to heart, for this is an important issue for you to understand. First off, I will address your point about how the “yes means yes” standard is an “impossible standard to implement given current norms.” You talk about how it is difficult for an average student to identify the difference between “positive cooperation” and “lack of protest,” and how in order for this to happen, students must be educated about identifying consent. At this point, I was confused about the rest of your article, since you seem to believe that giving consent, or giving a verbalized “yes”, before every sexual encounter is an idealistic expectation of any given student. However, you state that in order for consent to become a “current norm,” we must focus on educating the public of such. You contradict your own argument. What are you asking for? What do you suppose people should be educated on, if not the standard of consent to prevent cases of sexual coercion, molestation, and rape? You say that “a change in the statutes means nothing unless it is understood by those who are obligated to follow it.” Does this not call for education about consent, a so-called idealized concept you believe to only be upheld by the “complainers?”