Safety when it comes to sex is about more than just preventing illness and bad things from happening. Safety – which includes things like consent, ethics and responsibility, privacy, and preventing injury – is often part of making sexual experiences and choices excellent.
Safety & Consent
Articles and Advice in this area:
Advice
- Heather Corinna
No one ever needs a reason to say no to anything, just like you don’t need a reason to say yes to something. It sounds to me like you have been very clear when it comes to what you do not want to do. You even put a very clear date on it, so since you said that it won’t happen until you’re at least…
Advice
- CJ Turett
Consent is an active process and agreement, and it cannot be coerced. The absence of no does not mean yes. No matter how well you think that you know your partner, you should never assume that you know her thoughts in that instant about sex and what she may want or not want to do. She should also…
Article
(Part of How You Guys - That’s Right, You GUYS – Can Prevent Rape, and continued from Who are rapists, and where did rape even come from?) Sometimes, someone being raped will clearly say no and will NOT clearly say yes. They might say no verbally, with words, they might say no by crying, they might…
