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Talking With Boys About Sexual Assault And Consent

How do we discuss sexual assault and consent with teenage boys? A Jewish organization based near Philadelphia has developed a program to discuss difficult topics like this in an all-male setting.
Cody Greenes (center), 35, group leader with the Jewish organization Moving Traditions, leads six high school freshman boys in a discussion about sexual assault and consent.

In the basement of a suburban Philadelphia home a half-dozen high school freshman boys recently met to munch on chips and pretzels ... and to talk about sexual assault in the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

A Jewish organization called Moving Traditions brought them together as part of its programs to encourage teenagers to talk about this and other difficult issues.

Volunteer group leader Cody Greenes, 35, introduced the. Then Greenes lead a discussion about the historical power differences between men and women and how that can play out when it comes to sex.

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