ABSTRACT

Over the last decade, there has been growing awareness about issues of sexual consent. This has resulted in a global shift towards prioritising education and campaigns which address consent and sexual violence. Yet much discourse about consent continues to reinforce legalistic and binary notions of consent/rape which do not map onto young people’s experiences of navigating sex and relationships. This paper draws on findings from an innovative 2-year participatory action research project about sexual consent with young people that involved a series of educational and action-based projects at seven sites in Southern England. By drawing on important feminist work about continuums, this paper considers the generative potential of theorising and teaching about consent using the device of a continuum. It offers insight into how young people construct consent and develops an expanded model of consent using ‘continuum thinking’. Findings suggest the need to encourage and embrace a wider variety of terminology regarding consent and sexual violence in order to invite more people into the consent conversation.

摘要

在过去的十年中，人们对性同意问题的认识不断提高。这导致全球转向优先考虑解决同意和性暴力的教育和运动。然而，许多关于同意的讨论继续强化了同意/强奸的法律和二元概念，这些概念并没有映射到年轻人在性和关系中导航的经历。本文借鉴了一项创新的 2 年参与式行动研究项目的结果，该项目涉及与年轻人发生性行为的同意，该项目涉及在英格兰南部七个地点开展的一系列教育和基于行动的项目。通过借鉴关于连续统的重要女权主义工作，本文考虑了使用连续统装置的同意理论和教学的生成潜力。它提供了对年轻人如何构建同意并使用“连续思维”开发同意的扩展模型的见解。调查结果表明，需要鼓励和接受更多关于同意和性暴力的术语，以邀请更多人参与同意对话。