Universities’ sexual consent policies remain the focus of national media and government attention in the United States. Affirmative consent (i.e. physical and verbal consent) is increasingly the norm for institutional definitions of consent; yet these policies remain at odds with how students report consenting to sexual activity. In this paper, we examine how students formulate their understanding of sexual consent in ways that either resist or align with their university’s policies on sexual assault. Using conversation analysis, we analyse interviews in which students make explicit references to university policy when defining personal definitions of consent. We show that interviewees who do not align with university policy orient to this position as problematic and accountable, and conduct significantly more interactional work when defining consent. These findings illustrate the complex challenges that university students may face in articulating personal understandings of sexual consent, which may have consequences for policy and sexual consent programs.

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对同意条款的争论：大学生如何（不）与关于性同意的机构政策保持一致

大学的性同意政策仍然是美国国家媒体和政府关注的焦点。肯定同意（即身体和口头同意）越来越成为同意的制度定义的规范；然而，这些政策仍然与学生报告同意性活动的方式不一致。在本文中，我们研究了学生如何以抵制或符合他们大学的性侵犯政策的方式来表达他们对性同意的理解。使用对话分析，我们分析了学生在定义同意的个人定义时明确提及大学政策的访谈。我们表明，不符合大学政策的受访者将这一立场视为有问题和负责任的，并在定义同意时进行更多的互动工作。这些发现说明了大学生在阐明对性同意的个人理解时可能面临的复杂挑战，这可能会对政策和性同意计划产生影响。