"He Said She Said" fosters discussion and debate
Lecia Ductan
Issue date: 4/17/09 Section: News
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Motivational speakers Katie Koestner and Gordan Braxton came to Morrisville College to educate students about facts of the sexual assault they may not have known.
"Just because a girl kisses and doesn't say no does not always make the sex consensual; there is more to it. A female's body language can say more than she can physically," Braxton told the audience.
Braxton started the program with a debate discussing a scenario of a female who had been drunk one night and had sex with a man. Although she had never said no, she stayed quiet the whole time and never moved throughout the intercourse or let her partner know she had received any type of pleasure throughout the whole ordeal. The next morning when she woke up she decided with the help of a friend to tell counselors about her ordeal and tell the school judicial board she felt she was sexually assaulted. The audience had to decide if this was a case of sexual assault.
Many men and females in the audience did not believe this was sexual assault; many in the audience agreed this was a girl who was embarrassed by her actions after too many drinks. Very few audience members thought it was sexual assault at all, until Koestner spoke and told her ordeal of sexual assault she had experienced in her freshman year of college.
"I was once Erica. I had went out to dinner with a man in my school I had known for a couple of weeks, I had a glass of wine and I invited to my room after. I did kiss him, and I gave him the impression I wanted to go further when I really didn't," Koestner told the audience with a distant look on her face.