Capacity to Consent: Understanding, Choice, and Sexual Autonomy
Capacity to consent is the ability to understand relevant information, make a voluntary decision, and communicate agreement or refusal in a particular situation.
Capacity to consent is the ability to understand relevant information, make a voluntary decision, and communicate agreement or refusal in a particular situation.
Intellectual disability and sexuality explores consent, relationships, sexual health, identity, accessible education, safeguarding, and sexual autonomy.
A first sexual experience is a person’s first encounter with an activity they consider sexual and may involve questions of consent, readiness, health, and personal meaning.
Child sexual development is the age-related process of learning about bodies, gender, privacy, boundaries, relationships, reproduction, and personal safety.
Consent literacy is the ability to understand, communicate, recognize, and apply consent, boundaries, capacity, and voluntary agreement in sexual and intimate situations.
Age-appropriate sex education presents accurate sexuality information at a level suited to a learner’s age, development, maturity, and understanding.
Trauma-informed sex education teaches sexuality and sexual health with awareness of trauma, emphasizing safety, choice, consent, dignity, and respectful participation.
Intimate-image takedown is the process of seeking removal of private sexual images, videos, or synthetic intimate content from online platforms or services.
Sexual impersonation involves pretending to be another person in a sexual or intimate context to deceive, exploit, harass, or obtain sexual interaction or material.
A content warning alerts people before sensitive, explicit, or potentially distressing material so they can decide whether and how to engage with it.