Thank You for Asking

When Soleil R. Sykes took an internship in Washington during her first year as a student at Antioch College, she experienced a bit of culture shock. She was working at a German think tank and noticed that both in the office and at social events, friends and colleagues were far more casual about touching one another. At Antioch, people would have asked permission first. In 1990, Antioch College students pioneered its affirmative sexual consent policy, formulating a document now called the Sexual Offense Prevention Policy. It was mocked by much of the rest of the world.