Rethinking the concept of consent for anti-sexual violence activism and education
By M. Beres. 2014
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Sexual violence prevention has shifted from centering around a message of ‘no means no’ toward a message of ‘get consent.’ This paper explores how young adults conceptualise consent in relation to how they talked about expressing a willingness to participate in sex. The analysis here argues that understandings of consent are disconnected from how young people understand communication about sex. Consent is viewed as a formal minimum requirement for ‘ok’ sex. At the same time, young people were more sophisticated when discussing how they understand and communicate a willingness to have sex. Implications for sexual violence prevention education and research on sexual consent are discussed.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Sexual consent in K–12 sex education: an analysis of current health education standards in the United States (2018, background): “Sexual consent is therefore an internal feeling that can be communicated in a variety of ways – directly or indirectly and verbally or nonverbally (e.g. Beres 2014; Jozkowski et al. 2014; Hickman and Muehlenhard 1999).”
- Explicit Verbal Sexual Consent Communication: Effects of Gender, Relationship Status, and Type of Sexual Behavior (2019, background): “People’s relationship status with their sexual partners can influence consent communication (Beres, 2010, 2014; Humphreys & Brousseau, 2010; Humphreys & Herold, 2007; Muehlenhard et al., 2016).”