Mum's Side-Splitting Consent Chat With Her Teen Has A Message For All

Mel MoonA comedian’s clip of her teaching her 14-year-old son about consent has been branded “epic” and “genius” by parents, with one suggesting it should win a “Nobel Prize for parenting”.In the reel, Mel Moon can be heard sharing her take on the popular “tea” analogy – where the topic of sexual consent is likened to making a cup of tea (with the overarching message being: you wouldn’t force someone to have a cuppa, the same goes for sex). Mel told HuffPost UK she wanted to cover consent and coercion “because it happens so much in every day life, and like many women, I’d been on the receiving end of it”.“I never wanted my son to push or take anything less than an enthusiastic ‘yes’,” she added. “But equally, I wanted him to know he could also say ‘no’.”At the start of the video, Mel knocks on her teenager’s bedroom door, to which her son responds: “Mom it’s Sunday, even God took a day off.” So far, so good. She then sits on her son’s bed, telling him they’re going to talk about consent. “Do you want a cup of tea before we get started?” she asks.“No thanks,” mumbles her son.“Are you sure? Not the smallest drop of tea?” she continues.You see where this is going.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Mel Moon (@melmooncomedy)Mel then spends the next few minutes trying to persuade her son to have a cup of tea, with incredible lines like...“It’ll be the best you’ve ever had.”“But I’ve already boiled the kettle – if I don’t make the tea, the kettle might explode.”“Well everyone else is drinking tea...”“You don’t have to do anything you know, I’ll make the tea, you can lie there, I’ll just pour it down your throat.”After being bombarded with increasingly bizarre reasons he should have a tea, her son becomes exasperated and clearly just wants to end the conversation, so he agrees to a tea – and Mel happily goes and makes it.“Are you going to drink it then,” she asks on her return.“No, because I told you five different times I didn’t want it!” he shouts back. “Why are you being so weird about tea?!”“Am I making you uncomfortable?” Mel asks, to which her son says: “Yes!”“And that is consent my boy,” she chimes in. “If she says ‘no’, she doesn’t want to do it. And if you constantly try and convince her, even when she eventually says ‘yes’ because she’s so sick of you moaning, she still doesn’t want to do it.“And that is non-consensual – do you understand?”A mumbled “yes” means the message has been taken on board. Mel then goes to exit the room, but asks for the tea back, which results in a huge burst of laughter from her son. Mel believes humour plays a big part in making these conversations go smoothly, and helping the overarching message stick. “Humour is so important. Think back to sex ed in school – the nervous laughter and serious teacher meant that you often didn’t pay attention to what she said,” the comedian told HuffPost UK.“Laugh WITH them [your kids], remove the nerves – sex is messy and noisy and scary and often disappointing. Humanise it and suddenly the messages land well – in my humble opinion, that is, I’m sure there are therapists that would disagree.”She added: “The outtakes are so funny because he laughs so much sometimes it takes an hour to film two minutes.”Her video had received almost 400,000 likes at the time of writing and thousands of comments applauding the delivery and topic. When asked about the huge reaction to her video, Mel said: “I knew women would get it, I had no idea how many fathers would get behind it and even learn from it. That was a shock.”Related...Your Teen Wants To Wear A 'Sexy' Halloween Costume – What Do You Do?A Shocking Number Of People Admit To Being Sexually Coerced. What Happened To Consent?Porn Is Educating Our Kids About Sex – Are We OK With That?

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