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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
So all consent must be explicit? What fraction of the people who have sex in Calgary tonight will get explicit consent from their partner?
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All of them should. But within the cultural context many of us are raised in, it's a messy and complicated.
Like really you should ask for permission to do x, to touch y. In a live fire situation you may touch y first then confirm that's okay. But Ideally it should be the former not the latter.
And considering various other factrs like power dynamics etc, someone might not want to say y is okay, doesn't want to do it, but feels compelled or coerced to