Prevention is the best solution and it needs to start with parents educating their children to respect others, themselves, and everyone’s bodies and boundaries. This includes some honest dialogue about human sexuality and helping to shape reasonable expectations about relating to other people sexually, as that will need to be discussed, and the sooner, the better.
Given a lot of adults with children have their own issues with interpersonal relationships and sexuality, the education needs to happen at a community level, and include the school systems to provide support.
Given the prevalence of porn and the ease of access to abusive porn, I have to question if that isn’t a contributing factor to the rape crisis.
The longer we choose to ignore the elephant in the room, the bigger the mess becomes.
