Different views on what consent is (poll)

[PorcelainLark]

To me, consent is more about allowing experiences than assessing potential risks. Unlike risk assessment, which focuses on possible harm, consent should be more viewed as granting permission for an experience. The field of sexual ethics could benefit from this distinction of consent, emphasizing a shift from focusing on merely preventing harm (by judgements of consentability) to actively reducing it (by judgements of the actual sexual interplay). The specific use of language in "Age of Consent" suggests that consentability is dependant on age, dependent on mental faculty and proper risk assessment; but consent isn't about that. Consent in this instance is an approval to initiate an experience.

So, for you consent is based on desire? I'm still not entirely sure I understand what you mean. What do you think are the necessary conditions for a person to be able to consent? Forget about age for a moment, what are some examples where you feel someone is violating another person's consent?

[harpydreams]

All three things in this poll are demonstrably important to have to consent and without one of them nothing should occur.

Enthusiastic (desiring) consent, informed by sexual education and finalized with the ability to comprehend the consequences and the future after having sex, as well as the other person's intentions, is the only kind of sex I support even among adults.