Bodily Integrity: Consent, Protection, and Control Over the Body
Bodily integrity is the principle that a person’s body should be protected from unwanted interference, harm, exposure, or alteration and respected through consent and autonomy.
Bodily integrity is the principle that a person’s body should be protected from unwanted interference, harm, exposure, or alteration and respected through consent and autonomy.
Body autonomy is the right to make meaningful decisions about one’s own body, including touch, healthcare, sexuality, reproduction, privacy, and physical boundaries.
Embodied consent combines bodily awareness with clear, voluntary communication, helping people notice comfort, discomfort, desire, uncertainty, and changing boundaries.
Positive embodiment is a respectful, connected way of experiencing the body through awareness, autonomy, sensation, comfort, identity, and bodily trust.
Child sexual development is the age-related process of learning about bodies, gender, privacy, boundaries, relationships, reproduction, and personal safety.
Modesty is the quality of limiting self-display, bodily exposure, pride, or intimate disclosure according to personal, cultural, or religious values.