Coercive Pressure: Sexual Manipulation, Threats, and Invalid Consent
Coercive pressure uses manipulation, threats, repeated demands, or unequal power to make someone agree when they do not freely want to.
Intimacy Negotiation: Discussing Needs, Boundaries, and Agreements
Intimacy negotiation is the process of discussing and agreeing on emotional, physical, sexual, relational, and privacy needs within an intimate relationship.
Sexual Decision-Making: Choice, Consent, Health, and Personal Values
Sexual decision-making is the process of considering desire, boundaries, information, values, risks, and consequences before making sexual choices.
Sexual Agency: Choice, Autonomy, Desire, and Sexual Self-Direction
Sexual agency is the ability to make, communicate, and act on personal choices about sexuality, pleasure, relationships, health, identity, and boundaries.
Sexual Assertiveness: Expressing Desire, Boundaries, and Sexual Needs
Sexual assertiveness is the ability to communicate sexual interests, preferences, boundaries, refusals, and health needs clearly and respectfully.
Boundary Testing: Recognizing Respectful and Manipulative Behavior
Boundary testing involves discovering how firm another person’s physical, emotional, sexual, digital, or professional limits are.
Sexual Refusal: Meaning, Communication, and Personal Boundaries
Sexual refusal is the communication that a person does not want to begin, continue, or participate in a particular sexual activity.
Nonverbal Consent: Communicating Sexual Agreement Without Words
Nonverbal consent is voluntary agreement communicated through clear gestures, actions, signs, body movement, or assistive communication rather than spoken words.
Freely Given Consent: Voluntary Sexual Agreement Without Pressure
Freely given consent is voluntary agreement made without coercion, threats, manipulation, persistent pressure, or fear of harmful consequences.
Specific Consent: Agreement to a Particular Sexual Activity
Specific consent is voluntary agreement to a clearly identified activity, person, time, and set of circumstances rather than broad permission.