A leading Australian sexual offences prosecutor says unless sexuality and relationship education is vastly improved, the tide of sexual assault and rape will never be stemmed.
Katrina Marson has spent 10 years as a crown prosecutor in Canberra - primarily prosecuting sexual offences.
She says dealing with case after case, year after year, she realised how inadequate it is to prosecute a crime after the fact, and turned her attention to how to prevent them happening the first place.
Ms Marson won a Churchill Fellowship - stepped out of court room - and travelled the world, examining comprehensive relationship and sexuality education and its impacts.
She says our societies are negligent if we don't make a cultural shift towards valuing sexual wellbeing and preventing sexual violence in the first place.
Katrina Marson speaks with Susie Ferguson about her new book Legitimate Sexpectations and also Katie Fitzpatrick, associate professor of education at the University of Auckland who led the writing of the current relationship and sexuality education curriculum policy.
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