Assessing the Within-Person Variability of Internal and External Sexual Consent.

ABSTRACT: Sexual consent is often conceptualized as an internal willingness to engage in sexual activity, which can be communicated externally to a sexual partner. Internal sexual consent comprises feelings of physical response, safety/comfort, arousal, agreement/want, and readiness; external sexual consent includes communication cues that may be explicit or implicit and verbal or nonverbal. Most previous research on sexual consent has focused on between-person differences; little attention has been devoted to examining the within-person variation of sexual consent across time. We conducted a 28-day experience sampling methodology (ESM) study with a sample of adults (N = 113) to assess fluctuations in internal and external sexual consent across a given person's sexual events. We found that mo

SUBMITTER: Willis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239691 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature