What sets Generation Z apart from other generations? What drives today’s youth, and what keeps them awake at night? No one can tell us better than Gen Z themselves. That's why we are portraying 24 students from Radboud University. In this episode: Femke Gehoel, 23, Conflict Studies, is committed to more openness about sex.

‘In biology class, you learn how to put a condom on a banana, and how a person gets pregnant. But that’s about it. I learned nothing about my own body in secondary school. Where the erogenous zones are, or how to avoid getting an STD. I’ve had to look it all up on the internet. I think there should be much more focus on this in education, as sexologists have been saying for years. Sex education should be about both the physical and the psychological aspects of sex.

For a year, I was an ambassador for Equal Play, a national organisation that promotes dialogue around sexual behaviour. I gave workshops at student and study associations. We worked with case studies. Suppose you just had a great date and you made out. The other person asks you to stay over, but you would rather not, how do you handle that? Ultimately, those conversations are always about: How do we want to interact with each other? These things go wrong far too often; I see it all around me.

Sex is something we do for pleasure, but if a person’s boundaries are crossed, there is no pleasure. Your body is yours, and only you can decide what you want or don’t want. That is something we really need to talk about a lot more.’