Mike DomitrzPresident, Author, and Speaker on Respect, The Center for Respect, Inc. · Author & Speaker on Respect for Schools, Corporations, & the Military since 1990 (has reached

Choose a Consent Speaker For Your High School Assembly Carefully

20 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker highlights research indicating that when high‑school students are taught decision‑making and intimacy‑related skills, they engage in significantly less sexual activity. The key insight is that acquiring clear personal standards enables students to recognize situations that do not meet those standards and to disengage before intimacy occurs. The speaker uses rhetorical questions to emphasize the counter‑intuitive finding that more knowledge leads to less sexual activity, framing it as a compelling reason for schools to select informed consent speakers for assemblies.

Here's the fascinating part. When you equip students with skills to make choices around decision-making, around intimacy in their bodies, when you actually do that, all the research shows what? They have more sexual activity or less? What does the research show? What do you think? More or less when they have more skills and knowledge? What do you think they do in high school? More intimacy or less? Less. Less dramatically. Isn't that interesting? Because when you learn that standard, you recognize when you're not getting it and you stop it before it even gets anywhere near it because it's not meeting your standard.