Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Email: malachi. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4. Women reported significantly lower levels of sexual consent feelings than men for 12 of the 20 sexual behaviors and lower levels of active consent communication for 7 of them. Almost a third of participants Of those, participants on average reported nonconsensual experiences with 3. More women reported at least one nonconsensual experience with one of the sexual behaviors assessed compared with men We discussed several behavior-specific findings regarding sexual consent and the lack thereof.
We also made recommendations for initiatives aimed at promoting healthy sexual consent practices: embrace sexual diversity, emphasize sexual agency, and encourage active consent communication. Keywords: sexual consent, sexual diversity, gender, nonconsensual, sexual assault.
Sexual consent is complex and contextual. Evidencing this, research suggests that sexual consent varies by type of behavior; however, previous studies on sexual consent have primarily investigated only a small selection of behaviors e.
For example, Herbenick et al. These diverse and potentially stigmatized variations of sexual behavior are rarely, if ever, assessed in studies on sexual consent. Therefore, in an exploratory manner, we provided a preliminary examination of how sexual consent is experienced for a diverse array of sexual behaviors as well as diverse contexts within which sexual behavior might occur that are frequently endorsed by people but not well represented in the empirical literature on sexual consent, which has instead focused on behaviors that align with traditional sexual scripts.
Informed by conceptual and empirical reviews, Willis and Jozkowski , p. To assess the variety of feelings associated with an internal conceptualization of sexual consent, one research team asked participants to write about the feelings they associate with being willing to engage in sexual activity, specifically vaginal—penile sex Jozkowski et al.
