Art of Consent

 

Links to Articles, Books and Videos on Consent

 

There has been an abundance of great writing and improved understanding around consent in recent years.  Here is selection

of some of what we’ve found helpful:

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​GETTING STARTED

• "Its as Simple as Tea"

• Let's Talk About Consent

• How Our Understanding of Consent Has Evolved

• Setting Boundaries

• All About Boundaries

• How to Set Healthy Boundaries

• How Complicated is Consent?

• Embodied Consent

• Twelve Ways to say "No" Gracefully

• Does Verbal Consent ruin the Mood?

• When is someone too Drunk to give Consent?

• How to Avoid Unwanted Hugs

• The Wheel of Consent and Why I'm a Fan

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NEXT STEPS

• Betty Martin's Wheel of Consent videos

• How to Play the 3-minute Game

• Meg-John Barker's Consent Checklist

• Consent and Unwanted Sex

• Consent is a Radical Concept

• How Fan-Fiction is Leading the Way when it comes to Conversations about Consent

• An Intimacy Coordinator Speaks about Consent

• BOOK: Sexual Consent

• BOOK: The Art of Receiving and Giving - The Wheel of Consent

• BOOK: The Right to Sex

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CONSENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

• Consent Skills for Children

• How to Talk to your Children about Consent

• Teaching Kids About Consent and Boundaries

• Ways Parents Unintentionally Teach Consent Doesn't Matter

• The A to Z of Consent

• Consent at Every Age

• Sexual consent resources for young people

• Teaching Teen Boys About Consent

• Why we need to change the way young men think about consent

• Consent Beyond Binaries

• BOOK: Welcome to Consent

• BOOK: Respect - Everything a Guy Needs to Know about Sex, Love and Consent

• BOOK: "Talking Consent" workbook for Schools

• BOOK: Can We Talk About Consent?

• BOOK: The Big Questions Book of Sexual Consent

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CONSENT AT UNIVERSITY

• BOOK: Consent on Campus

• BOOK: Blurred Lines - Rethinking Sex, Power and Consent on Campus

• Sexual Harassment & Violence in Further & Higher Education

• Eight ways to improve responses to sexual misconduct in universities

• The 1752 Group

 

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RELATIONSHIP CONSENT

• Enthusiastic versus Explicit Consent

• On Being 'Seducible'

• Why People sometimes find Sex Dull

• Nuances of Desire and Arousal

• Consensual Relationships

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POWER AND PRIVILEGE

• Navigating Sex for those in Positions of Power

• Consent and Systemic Inequity

• Consent, Power and Spirituality

• From #metoo to Reclaiming the Pleasure of Consent

• Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?

• Desire, Preference, or Conditioning?

• Consent and the Problem of Violence Against Women

• BOOK: Tomorrow Sex will be Good Again

 

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TRAUMA AND CONSENT

• The Four 'F's

• When Agreement is Not Consent

• Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory

• 7 Subtle Signs Your Trauma Response is to ‘Fawn'

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CONSENT CULTURE

• BOOK: Ask - Building Consent Culture

• Consent Culture - What it is and Why we need it

• BOOK: Creating Consent Culture

• PODCAST: I Do Consent

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CONSENT VIOLATIONS AND ACCOUNTABILITY

• What Is Accountability?

• What is Restorative Justice?

• Consent Accountability Processes

• How to Respond to Sexual Abuse Within a Spiritual Community

• What You Can Do When You’ve Crossed Someone’s Boundaries

• What To Do if You Are The One Accused of a Consent Violation

• What To Do if Your Friend Gets Called Out

• A Call to Men

• Consent and Power in Abusive Groups

• BOOK:  Consent - A Memoir of Unwanted Attention

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GETTING SUPPORT

• NHS - How to Get Help after a Sexual Assault

• NHS - How to Get Help after Domestic Violence

• Solace - Support After Rape or Serious Sexual Assault

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