Conscious Touch: Meaning, Body Awareness, Intimacy, and Consent
Conscious touch is intentional physical contact given with awareness of sensation, emotional response, comfort, boundaries, and consent.
Consensual Nonconsent: BDSM Role-Play, Consent, and Boundaries
Consensual nonconsent (CNC) is a BDSM role-play practice where participants negotiate a fantasy involving simulated nonconsent while maintaining real consent and boundaries.
Consensual Power Exchange: BDSM Authority and Submission
Consensual power exchange is a BDSM dynamic in which adults voluntarily establish dominant and submissive roles within defined areas.
Consensual Sex: Meaning, Consent, Boundaries, and Communication
Consensual sex involves freely chosen, informed, specific, and ongoing agreement from everyone involved, with the right to pause or withdraw at any time.
Consensual: Meaning, Sexual Consent, Boundaries, and Choice
Consensual means freely agreed to by everyone involved and requires voluntary, informed, specific, continuing, and reversible consent.
Consent Capacity: Understanding the Ability to Give Valid Consent
Consent capacity is the ability to understand, evaluate, and voluntarily decide whether to agree to a particular sexual or intimate activity.
Consent Check-In: Confirming Comfort and Ongoing Sexual Agreement
A consent check-in is a brief confirmation used during intimacy to make sure everyone remains comfortable, willing, and interested in continuing.
Consent Culture: Building Respect, Autonomy, and Sexual Accountability
Consent culture is a social environment that treats bodily autonomy, clear communication, voluntary agreement, and respect for personal boundaries as normal.
Consent Impairment: Understanding Reduced Capacity for Sexual Agreement
Consent impairment is a reduction in a person’s ability to understand, evaluate, communicate, or voluntarily decide about a sexual or intimate activity.
Consent Literacy: Boundaries, Communication, and Sexual Autonomy
Consent literacy is the ability to understand, communicate, recognize, and apply consent, boundaries, capacity, and voluntary agreement in sexual and intimate situations.