How to Initiate a Sexual Encounter in Consent Culture (A Primer)
It’s not always as easy and natural as we’d like to think.
You can’t open a newspaper, or turn on the news with reading about sexual assault, rape culture and scandals that are changing not only people’s lives but the way people are thinking about sexual encounters, especially in this age of hook ups and casual sex.
It’s not as intuitive as some folks would like to think it is.
But who is actually teaching people how to initiate sex and get consent? It’s not as intuitive as some folks would like to think it is.
It would be helpful to understand first how most people begin sexual encounters. That part is simple — it just needs language put to it. People initiate sexual encounters in verbal and non-verbal ways.
Most people initiate sex in non-verbals ways.
Most people initiate sex in non-verbals ways. Non-verbal sexual initiation can include eye contact, body movement or expression as well as actions. In the land of “consent culture” where people are being encouraged to use their words — this is a massive retraining on how most people initiate sexual encounters. Most of this re-education of “consent…