But we do want to head toward a world where people have control over other people's physical advances on them simply by voicing their consent. Maybe it could h

But we do want to head toward a world where people have control over other people's physical advances on them simply by voicing their consent. Maybe it could help if you imagine a situation where someone claims that you were willingly joining in a street fight with someone, i.e. that you were fighting together, when the street fight consisted of some thug saying to you, "Wanna fight?" and you saying "No." Sounds like the definition of declining, to me.