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September 26, 2022

Utah elementary school teacher arrested on child sex abuse charges

MAGNA, Utah — A Utah elementary faculty teacher who also teaches youth in his church was arrested Thursday on suspicion of sexually abusing multiple kids.

Dale L. Andreason, 70, faces 4 initially-degree felony fees of aggravated sexual abuse of a child.

The victims of Andreason’s alleged abuse have been not his students — on the other hand, an individual who is aware him reported Andreason admitted to acquiring “fantasies about young children he teaches but has not acted on them,” in accordance to the law enforcement report.

Andreason is a initial-quality trainer at Elk Run Elementary in Magna. A spokesperson for the Granite School District explained he was placed on leave on Sep. 16, quite a few days in advance of his arrest when they were being knowledgeable about the investigation and the “disturbing information and facts.”

There was “no indicator” that Andreason experienced abused any college students, the district said in an e mail to the people of Elk Run pupils. However, everyone with details or fears was suggested to contact West Valley Metropolis Police at 801-963-3300.

Arresting paperwork also point out that Andreason volunteers to educate 11- and 12-year-olds at a church. They did not say whether he still holds that situation, nor what church he attends.

The investigation into Andreason’s alleged abuse began when law enforcement acquired a report that he was viewed touching a lady (whose age was not specified) inappropriately. This happened before this calendar year at a bash at a residence in West Valley Town, in accordance to court docket paperwork.

The female who submitted the report also claimed Andreason experienced touched her inappropriately about 15 many years in the past when she was a teenager.

In the course of the investigation, police claimed they also acquired of three supplemental victims. Just one mentioned Andreason touched her inappropriately when she was as younger as four a long time old. Yet another verified that she was a “sufferer of the suspect but could not provide specifics at this time,” and police claimed the other “was not keen to come forward all through this investigation.”

Andreason was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail and was requested to be held without bail.

The whole e mail sent to parents and guardians of Elk Operate Elementary College learners can be examine under:

“Expensive Elk Operate Mom and dad and People,

“We were being lately notified and wished to notify you concerning some disturbing details from the West Valley Police Office, whereby our 1st grade teacher, Mr. Andreason was arrested this early morning on some pretty critical fees involving inappropriate contact with a insignificant. We are nonetheless accumulating details on this subject, but we ended up notified numerous days in the past that an investigation was ensuing and he was put on depart at that time. It is thought that the suspected illegal actions is minimal to family members members.

“University student protection is our main concern and we get these expenses incredibly seriously. We have gained no indicator from WVCPD that our students were associated. Nonetheless, if you have further more details or problems, we persuade you to make contact with the WVCPD. They can be arrived at at 801-963-3300.

“We thank you for your endurance and assist as we perform by this issue.”

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Methods for sexual assault victims:

Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault hotline: 801-736-4356
Much more assets readily available on the web at ucasa.org/means

March 2, 2022

Better Sex Ed Starts With These Food Metaphors

“Sex is like pizza: Even when it is poor, it’s fantastic.” We have all read that expressing at some level. Whilst not the most accurate adage (in some cases intercourse is like pizza in that when it is terrible, it’s really, truly negative!), it is an illustration of how the universal practical experience of ingesting meals can be utilised to impart lessons about intercourse.

A center college in Connecticut lately applied pizza in a Spouse and children Wellness and Sexuality lesson for eighth graders identified as “Pizza and Consent,” leading to outrage amid moms and dads and users of the community, in accordance to Mothers and fathers Defending Training. In an apology e mail, the school’s coordinator of health and bodily schooling discussed that the mistaken worksheet was dispersed, and the assignment in its place was supposed to be about apparent conversation, with no sexual acts mentioned at all. But explicitly generating the lesson about intercourse could be extra helpful to teenagers in the long run, and is an workout that a lot more intercourse schooling applications across the place really should utilize.

What is the “Pizza and Consent” sex ed lesson?

The worksheets related with this lesson are very simple and simple to understand, outlining consent as enthusiastic, fluid, respectful, and, most importantly, needed. Ahead of ordering a pizza with a group of close friends, for instance, “consent” appears to be like like checking in with every person about any allergies, topping tastes, and no matter whether they even like pizza to begin with (not absolutely everyone does!).

Each and every pupil is then encouraged to make their possess own pizza, equating their favorite toppings with sexual functions they get pleasure from and their “totally not” toppings with sexual intercourse functions they dislike, then discuss with other learners about these preferences. So, say you only want cheese on your pizza, which we’ll call “kissing,” and the thing you would by no means put on your pizza is olives, or “oral sex.” Before purchasing a pizza, you’ll have some issues to explore with the person who only likes olives—or it’s possible you will just decide on not to share a pizza with that individual at all.

“Obviously, you could not be equipped to checklist all of your needs, desires, and boundaries, but hopefully you will commence sensation extra at ease about talking about them,” the worksheet claims.

Will make perception to me! It is a lesson that I was in no way taught in faculty, but it is 1 that would have supplied me valuable resources I’d nonetheless use these days.

Food items metaphors for virginity, in the meantime, do not operate so effectively

It is important to be aware, however, that invoking foodstuffs in reference to sexuality does not generally get the job done. In the scenario of most rhetoric made use of to preach abstinence, these food items metaphors are employed to exclusively disempower young ladies, irrespective of whether or not the intercourse they have interaction in is consensual.

In 2013, kidnap and sexual assault survivor Elizabeth Intelligent recalled the lesson she was taught as a student. “I don’t forget in university 1 time, I experienced a teacher who was talking about abstinence,” Wise explained to a panel at Johns Hopkins University. “And she explained, ‘Imagine you’re a stick of gum. When you have interaction in sex, which is like obtaining chewed. And if you do that heaps of occasions, you’re going to turn out to be an previous piece of gum, and who is likely to want you following that?’ Well, which is awful. No a person should really at any time say that.”

In religious contexts, it goes all the way back to the commencing, in which an apple is representative of a woman’s forbidden sexual drive. Eve gave into her urge, and now absolutely everyone has sin since of her. Sexual repression apart, this lesson is convoluted at ideal: We’re supposed to… not try to eat apples? For our purity?

The absolutes in these abstinence metaphors depart small room for discussion. They’re not invitations to open up a dialog with your partner—they’re mandates from a perceived authority figure who presumes to have management over your overall body. And that suppression of conversation abilities can direct to some unpleasurequipped, not to mention very dangerous, sexual scenarios.

We need to hold making use of food items to discuss about consent

One more lesson generating the rounds in the latest decades is the video clip “Tea Consent.” You can inquire an individual if they want tea, and they can say “yes” or “no.” But even if they say “yes,” that doesn’t imply they have to consume the tea at the time they acquire it, and you simply cannot power them to do so. Even though the metaphor has been criticized for remaining much too simplistic, it’s a far cry from comparing youthful women to outdated items of gum.

We should make it possible for educators to educate consent any way they can, and if that arrives in the form of lessons about tea or pizza or any other digestible item, even far better. We all eat, and most of us will have sex—and some have to have to find out the words and phrases to say if they don’t want to have sex.

For dad and mom who are clutching their pearls above speak of sexuality remaining “inappropriate” for eighth graders, think about that all those 13- and 14-12 months-olds are the midst of (or on the cusp of) puberty, and they are learning about sex from TikTok and flicks and publications they may possibly even previously be in interactions. Instructing them how to not only discuss what they are at ease with but find out to regard the requests of other folks must arrive quicker relatively than afterwards in intercourse education and learning curriculums.

Quickly we can update that aged phrase about intercourse and pizza. “Sex is like pizza: I only have it when I want it with the aspects I and my lover like finest, and as a result, it’s generally superior.” A tiny wordier, positive, but a a great deal far better sentiment to get driving.

February 14, 2022

Sex week kicks off on campus

For many colleges and universities, Valentine’s Day provides the perfect entrée to Sex Week, a series of events and workshops on everything from consent and body image to contraceptives and STI testing. Among this year’s more creative offerings: a “make your own sex toy” workshop and “condom bingo,” in which players use condoms to mark their cards.

“People come to campus with a wide variety and levels of education about sex,” said Tammi Simpson, vice president for community and inclusivity at Hood College in Maryland, which hosted its first-ever sex week last week. “We feel like having a weeklong program normalizes the conversation and allows us to be open and communicate about not only sex, but sexuality, pleasure and sexual health.”

The college hosted eight events, including a professor-led discussion on the reproductive journeys of transgender and nonbinary people. The Queer Student Union co-hosted condom bingo and joined with the Black Student Union to sponsor Black Love Day, in which students were invited to gather, eat together and meet new friends.

Amanda Dymek, director of wellness at Hood College, who helped organize the week’s events, said it was especially gratifying to watch faculty and students interact during a discussion titled, “There’s Power in Your Pleasure,” led by a sex educator.

“The maturity and the vulnerability that was shared during our evening program … was really wonderful to see,” Dymek said. “Our students were so honest, mature and self-reflective in sharing with our experts their experiences in relationships and in finding and developing their own sexuality.”

Tulane University in New Orleans has scheduled more than 20 sex-related events this week, starting with a Sex Week Kick-Off giveaway of condom kits and sex toys. Students can also play a “Wheel of Fornication” game to win small prizes while learning facts and statistics about sex and sexuality, or attend the “Black Bodies Need Love Too” discussion about the sexual lives of Black students on campus.

At Ohio State University, Student Advocates for Sexual Health Awareness (SASHA) is hosting 20 events—including one centered on writing thank-you notes to abortion providers in Ohio and Texas, which won the notice of conservative media outlets such as Fox News and The Daily Caller, sparking a flurry of criticism online and from the university’s Students for Life group.

A spokesperson for OSU told Fox News Digital that no taxpayer dollars were used to sponsor the event, and that “Ohio State has a deep and abiding commitment to free speech.”

SASHA is also hosting a discussion on “gentle masculinity” with Schuyler Bailar, the first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer, as well as an event in conjunction with Lion’s Den, a national sex shop, where students can learn about different sex toys and gear.

The student-run organization Sex Week at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is hosting 11 events this week, including a do-it-yourself sex toy workshop—back by popular demand from last year—in which students can pick a toy mold and make their own sex toy using a silicone mixture. At the dating-profile photo shoot, students can get their photo taken to add to their online dating profile for apps like Tinder and Bumble. And there’s a speed-dating event, where students go on miniature dates together.

Two events had to be postponed because of COVID-19 restrictions, said student Emily Coulter, a lead organizer for the university’s sex week: the group’s signature drag show and a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening. Both events were pushed back until later in the spring, since they draw large crowds; Coulter said the drag show usually attracts 200 students.

Sex Week at UNC Charlotte aims to host events about things that students can’t easily find online—such as body image and its role in the enjoyment of sex, which Coulter said could be especially helpful for those who gained weight during the pandemic.

“Students are not going to come to an event to learn about how to put a condom on,” Coulter said. “Google is freely available and YouTube is freely available. It is very easy to get those resources. So we focus more of our attention on the things that we think are interesting. I want to hear about the latest research about how our society thinks about our relationship with sex and gender and consent.”

Vanderbilt University in Tennessee is hosting a Sex Ed and Healthy Relationships Week with eight events. Bailey Via, program coordinator of the university’s Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, said she’s most looking forward to “What Sex Meant to Me: Exploring the Talk Among Different Identity Groups.”

“We’ve done a version of this event in the past, and it went really well, so I’m very excited to bring it back this year,” Via said. “This event will feature a panel of Vanderbilt students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds as they discuss how the communities within which they were raised have influenced the way they view relationships, sex, sexuality, identity and more. This event is likely to spark some great conversation about how we all have different influences that inform the way we view sex and relationships.”

Via said it’s important to continue educating students on sex in order to fill in the gaps for those who may not have had much sexual health education.

“We believe this work is so important, because it helps students make the most informed and safe decisions for themselves when it comes to sex and sexual health,” Via said. “We want everyone to have autonomy in their sexual decision making, and the more we all know, the more autonomy we all have.”

The University of Denver is hosting a Love + Sex + Health Week consisting of seven events, including a queer-inclusive and supportive consent education workshop for students who may have felt alienated by traditional sex education.

Most of the sex week programming is either hybrid or virtual, so students who might feel uncomfortable or shy going to an event in person can still attend virtually, said Andrea Thyrring, Denver’s health promotion coordinator and coordinator of gender violence prevention and education for the American College Health Association Campus Safety and Violence Coalition.

“We are really trying to build as many opportunities for access to these programs as possible, while also recognizing students really want to connect with one another and with educators in person,” Thyrring said. “So I’m just really excited that we get to balance accessibility and inclusion with that desire for in-person programming again.”