Faculty students’ definition of non-consent and sexual refusals in the age of affirmative consent initiatives: Sexual intercourse Schooling: Vol 23, No 1

Summary

Affirmative consent initiatives advocate that college learners comprehend sexual consent and refusal. There has been an inflow of study centered on students’ definitions or knowledge of consent nonetheless, study inspecting students’ definitions of sexual refusals is limited. Also, various terminology (e.g., non-consent vs. sexual refusal) could influence students’ definitions. We assessed how college or university pupils outlined non-consent and sexual refusal we also examined distinctions In definitions based on terminology while controlling for age and sexual intercourse. Faculty pupils (n = 758) from the United states of america and Canada completed an open up-finished, world-wide-web-based mostly study. College students were being randomly assigned to possibly outline non-consent or sexual refusal. We utilised an inductive coding procedure to analyse the info. We also employed multinomial and logistic regression to assess variances in definitions across the two wording problems. We observed 3 overarching themes described both wording situations: 1) an interior and exterior definition, 2) an intoxication definition, and 3) a coercion definition. Students’ age, sex, and the wording ailment have been connected to their inside and external definition. Both equally coercion and intoxication have been connected with the non-consent problem. Definitions of refusals ended up in line with messages from affirmative consent initiatives, suggesting that affirmative consent initiatives may affect how learners outline these constructs.