1st Edition

Nuances of Sexual Consent

Edited By Malachi Willis Copyright 2022
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Sexual consent represents the willingness to engage in sexual behaviour with another person. This book presents a collection of research studies that sought to uncover intricacies related to how people experience, communicate, or perceive such willingness. Is consent sexy? To what extent are descriptions of nonconsensual sex discomforting? Do past instances of nonconsensual sex affect how people... Read more

1. Introduction 
Malachi Willis 
2. Is consent sexy? Comparing evaluations of written erotica based on verbal sexual consent 
Jennifer L. Piemonte, Staci Gusakova, Marissa Nichols and Terri D. Conley 
3. Using vignette methodology to study comfort with consensual and nonconsensual depictions of pornography content 
Kate Dawson, Chris Noone, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn and Padraig MacNeela 
4. Sexual consent and sexual agency of women in healthy relationships following a history of sexual trauma 
Kristen P. Mark and Laura M. Vowels 
5. South African women’s constructions of sexual consent 
Kayla Beare and Floretta Boonzaier 
6. Complexities of sexual consent: Young people’s reasoning in a Swedish context 
Charlotta Holmström, Lars Plantin and Eva Elmerstig 
7. People perceive transitioning from a social to a private setting as an indicator of sexual consent 
Kristen N. Jozkowski and Malachi Willis 
8. Reprogramming consent: implications of sexual relationships with artificially intelligent partners 
Ellen M. Kaufman 

Biography

Malachi Willis is Research Associate in the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow, UK. He primarily researches the nuances of sexual consent, which he conceptualises as a person’s willingness to engage in a particular sexual behaviour with a particular person within a particular context.