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A high-profile advocate for sexual consent education wants law changes to improve women’s safety, institutional responses to assaults and better outcomes for survivors, AAP reports.

Teach us Consent founder Chanel Contos has teamed up with the National Women’s Safety Alliance to call for a nationally consistent, statutory definition of affirmative sexual consent.

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