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Our UU program (which deals quite a bit with consent/boundaries/etc.) has been around for so long, some of my co-teachers actually took the class when they were kids!

It's strange how we're almost conditioned to sweep this sort of thing under the rug. Not the same thing in terms of the creep-factor, but similar: When I was in elementary school a boy I was friends with exposed himself to me on the playground and I've never told anyone until right now. At the...

We have ongoing discussions about consent. Mine are young still—9 and 10 YO—but we've been discussing it in age-appropriate ways since they were preschoolers. I'm a sexuality educator so I am probably more open about discussing these things with my kids than the average bear. But 5-year-olds can...

Eh...my kids are homeschooled and (at ages 9 and 10) they understand consent. I'm hard-pressed to believe that it's beyond the comprehension of teenagers and young adults.

This is not unique to gymnastics. It's happened in skating in the past as well.