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Lecture for Extermination of Sexual Violence Opened

There was a lecture for eradicating sexual violence in school and finding ways to liberating the freedom in Resting place for female students on April 12th. General coed Council planned the event and the speaker was from the Korean sexual violence Relief center. The lecture is to establish right consciousness about sex on campus.

AhnPark Eun-jung, the speaker, said that discussions on sex are regarded as if they bore no relation to the social power, and so are limited to biological aspects. She indicated that present sex education was confined to explaining the characteristics of body and forcing the notion on women's virginity. Virginity is obliged to women, while men are free from the misconception. Since women were stereotyped by the environment, many Koreans are caught by distorted ideas on sex.

University is not an exception. Students enjoy watching disguised portrays of women in magazines without any criticism. At the face of chronic sexual harassments on campus, men are holding dominant position like in society. Sexual violence should be understood at the stand of women. People always focused on matters how woman opposed against the offender, which made people think the image of inferior women. As long as sexual harassments on campus violate one's sexual right and have bad effects on victims, they should be dealt seriously. The council started a signature-collecting campaign on May 1st to enact the law to prohibit sexual violences in HUFS.