Consent and communication

Asking, agreeing, changing your mind, and recognising coercion.

• Affirmative consentWhat consent is, what it is not, and how to establish it in practice.
• Capacity, intoxication and consentWhen someone cannot legally or ethically consent, and how alcohol and drugs affect that.
• Coercion, pressure and sexual abuseRecognising pressure that invalidates consent, including within long-term relationships.
• Negotiation and boundariesHow to talk about what you want before it happens, and hold limits without an argument.
• Online intimacy, sexting and image consentConsent applies to images and recordings, and the law increasingly agrees.
• Withdrawing consent and stoppingStopping mid-encounter, safewords outside kink, and what a good response looks like.