Risk-Aware Consent: Informed Choice, Boundaries, and Sexual Safety
Risk-aware consent means agreeing to an activity with a reasonable understanding of its important risks, limits, possible consequences, and available safety measures.
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.
Embodied Consent: Bodily Awareness, Boundaries, and Sexual Choice
Embodied consent combines bodily awareness with clear, voluntary communication, helping people notice comfort, discomfort, desire, uncertainty, and changing boundaries.
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.
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.
Sexual Boundary Violation: Consent, Limits, and Sexual Autonomy
A sexual boundary violation occurs when someone crosses, pressures, or ignores another person’s limits involving sexual activity, touch, privacy, or communication.
Stealthing: Nonconsensual Condom Removal and Sexual Consent
Stealthing is the intentional removal or interference with a condom during sex without a partner’s knowledge or consent, violating agreed sexual boundaries.
Reproductive Coercion: Pregnancy, Contraception, and Control
Reproductive coercion is pressure, deception, or interference that limits another person’s freedom to make decisions about contraception, pregnancy, or reproduction.
Contraceptive Sabotage: Birth Control Interference and Consent
Contraceptive sabotage is intentional interference with another person’s birth control, undermining consent, reproductive autonomy, and pregnancy prevention.
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.