Boundary Testing: Recognizing Respectful and Manipulative Behavior
Boundary testing involves discovering how firm another person’s physical, emotional, sexual, digital, or professional limits are.
Boundary testing involves discovering how firm another person’s physical, emotional, sexual, digital, or professional limits are.
Mutual consent means that every participant freely and knowingly agrees to a specific activity and may limit or withdraw that agreement at any time.
A consenting adult is an adult who knowingly and voluntarily agrees to a specific activity and has the capacity and freedom to make that choice.
Yield means to give way, stop resisting, surrender control, or produce a result. In intimacy, yielding must be distinguished from consent and coercion.
Consent is a clear, voluntary, informed, specific, and ongoing agreement to participate in an activity, with the freedom to stop at any time.