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A moment ago the discussion was about requiring /affirmative/ consent at every escalation. But your example is "is the person giving moderately subtle-to-overt
by arkades 11y ago
A moment ago the discussion was about requiring /affirmative/ consent at every escalation. But your example is "is the person giving moderately subtle-to-overt signs of non-consent."
The example of "affirmative consent" I've been presented with generally include explicitly verbalizing requests for consent, so as to preclude things like reading body language, because... well, that's where things go awry.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoAffirmitive just means "yes", getting the other party to say it out loud helps if you're really that bad at body language and non-verbal communication but is not required. As someone else stated, if verbal consent was what was required, they'd call it "verbal consent" not "affirmative consent". Affirmative meaning, from a plain dictionary definition: "saying or showing that the answer is "yes" <He gave an affirmative answer.> ". Again, the history and context is people being raped who did not "fight back", and it was held against them, and people accused of rape who said in their own defence that they didn't think they were raping the person because they didn't do anything to stop them. That's not their responsibility, it's yours to get "affirmitive consent".