ABSTRACT In preliminary studies, behaviours, actions, and cues occurring in social settings (e.g., bars or parties), including the transition to a private setting (e.g., going home together), have been identified as indicating a potential partner’s consent to sexual behaviour. To examine this nuance, we assessed people’s in-the-moment perceptions of sexual consent. We developed staggered vignettes of a fictional sexual encounter between two characters and asked participants (N = 1094) to indicate the extent that they believed the characters were willing to engage in several sexual behaviours. We found that the act of transitioning from a social to a private setting increased participants’ in-the-moment perceptions of the characters’ willingness to engage in genital touching, oral sex, and vaginal-penile sex (ps <.001). We did not find the effect of transitioning to a private setting to vary by the gender of the (1) participant or (2) character initiating the transition. However, we found that male participants indicated that the female character was more likely to be willing to engage in sexual behaviour when the female character initiated the invitation to transition from the social to the private setting. We recommend that educators and advocates emphasise such nuances in consent communication as part of affirmative consent and sexual assault prevention initiatives.

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人们认为从社会环境到私人环境的转变是性同意的一个指标

摘要 在初步研究中，社会环境（例如酒吧或聚会）中发生的行为、行动和线索，包括向私人环境的过渡（例如，一起回家），已被确定为表明潜在伴侣同意性行为. 为了检查这种细微差别，我们评估了人们对性同意的即时感知。我们制作了两个角色之间虚构的性接触的交错小插曲，并要求参与者 (N = 1094) 表明他们相信角色愿意进行几种性行为的程度。我们发现，从社交环境过渡到私人环境的行为增加了参与者对角色愿意进行生殖器接触、口交和阴道-阴茎性交的即时感知（ps <.001）。我们没有发现过渡到私人环境的效果因 (1) 参与者或 (2) 发起过渡的角色的性别而异。然而，我们发现男性参与者表示，当女性角色发起从社交环境过渡到私人环境的邀请时，女性角色更有可能愿意进行性行为。我们建议教育者和倡导者强调同意沟通中的这种细微差别，作为肯定同意和性侵犯预防举措的一部分。我们发现男性参与者表示，当女性角色发起从社交环境过渡到私人环境的邀请时，女性角色更有可能愿意进行性行为。我们建议教育者和倡导者强调同意沟通中的这种细微差别，作为肯定同意和性侵犯预防举措的一部分。我们发现男性参与者表示，当女性角色发起从社交环境过渡到私人环境的邀请时，女性角色更有可能愿意进行性行为。我们建议教育者和倡导者强调同意沟通中的这种细微差别，作为肯定同意和性侵犯预防举措的一部分。