“Say no to bad touches”: Schools, sexual identity and sexual violence in northern Uganda

- Details of sex are left deliberately vague by trusted adults.
- Children learn by doing, and often this is instigated by boys.
- Schools reinforce subordinate gender roles where violence is an ever-present possibility.
- Consent is absent as a distinction between appropriate and illicit sex.
- Effects on girls of messages intended to empower them are feelings of blame, shame and silence.