Men and women can prevent sexual assault in many ways. One
of the many ways it’s Bystander Intervention. But what exactly is Bystander
intervention?
Active Bystander Intervention is an approach that encourages
people to identify situations that might lead to sexual assault leading that
person to intervene in order to prevent the assault from happening. Both men
and women could be active bystander interveners. Let’s say you are at your best
friend’s college graduation party and the alcohol is in abundance. Everyone is
getting a little out of control yet everyone seems to be having a great time.
On one of the corners of the basement you notice a guy that is close in
distance to your best friend and he’s consistently getting closer and closer
while she is literally drunk out of her consciousness. You already know, or
might have an idea of what might happen to your best friend if this isn’t
stopped right away. Here are some suggestions on what to do in this instance:
Act in time. The idea is to have enough time to intervene before your friend is yet another victim of sexual assault.
Call a group of friends or friend at the party to help you get your best friend to a safe place as soon as possible.
Call authorities if you have no control over the situation.
Stay by your friend’s side at all times.
Drift the situation away by doing anything that would disturb the guy from continuing his attempts.
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