Students must get ‘explicit verbal consent’ before touching anyone | Daily Mail Online
Students at two London universities must obtain ‘explicit verbal consent’ before touching anyone inside their student union or risk being barred under safe space rules, MailOnline can today reveal.
The directives at Goldsmiths and SOAS mean that students wanting to hug their friends or pat them on the back to say well done must ask in advance before doing so or risk being turfed out by security staff.
Both student unions have bars at their headquarters and regularly run party nights, where the requirement to ask permission before touching anyone would also apply in a bid to uphold ‘physical and emotional boundaries’.
This is indeed “mind-numbingly stupid,” as the emeritus professor says. It applies presumably to just the student union, but still.