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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Teenagers in Scotland campaign to improve education on consent

Six teenagers standing in a group outside a school building, one carrying a tote bag with a Bold Girls Ken logo
Six of the teenagers involved in the Bold Girls Ken project, at Bertha Park high school in Perth. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Every young person should know what consent looks and feels like, online and offline, according to a group of Perthshire teenagers who are pioneering a youth-led upgrade of sex education.

Taking a bracingly honest approach to the deluge of “normalised” soft pornography they say most children are familiar with by the time they enter high school, Bold Girls Ken is the first campaign of its kind in Scotland, with young women designing their own learning materials.

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