Indiscrete: How Typical College Student Sexual Behavior Troubles Affirmative Consent’s Demand for Clear Communication

Hardesty, Melissa; Young, Sarah; McKinnon, Allison M.; Merriwether, Ann; Mattson, Richard E.; Massey, Sean G.

doi:10.1007/s13178-021-00611-9

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“…Like Powell et al (2021), our findings suggest considerable disagreement about the definition of just talking. However, ambiguity is a normative aspect of romantic/sexual communication among emerging adults on college campuses and is sometimes strategic in hookup culture (Currier, 2013; Hardesty et al, 2022). We suspect but cannot confirm that ambiguity plays a similar strategic role in just talking because it allows young people to balance conflicting needs for intimacy during young adulthood with perceived cultural proscriptions on the desire for commitment.…”

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“…Uncertainty about the connotation of particular interactions complicates sexual communication and consent (Hardesty et al, 2022), but there are recognizable sexual scripts within hookup culture that help young adults interpret the meaning of interactions. For example, leaving a party to establish privacy with another person is widely understood to signal a desire for sex, despite falling short of many sexual consent standards (Hardesty et al, 2022). But if young adults usually socialize in groups, and leaving such situations to be alone with somebody is understood as an invitation to hook up, it becomes difficult to break apart from the group to establish nonphysical intimacy and screen potential romantic partners.…”

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What Are College Students Talking About When They Say They’re “Just Talking?”

Hardesty,

Wilson,

Wasserman

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Emerging Adulthood

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The phrase “just talking” is ubiquitously used by emerging adults to describe amorous interactions. Despite the prevalence of this phrase in public discourse, little is known about what just talking means and whether it is simply popular slang for longstanding relationship patterns or marks a shift in romantic and sexual norms and behavior. We surveyed undergraduate students at a mid-sized university about just talking, then conducted focus groups to better contextualize the phenomenon. Participant responses were coded inductively and interpreted in the historical context of American courtship, contemporary social norms on campus, the developmental tasks of emerging adulthood, and shifting patterns of everyday interaction brought about by smartphone technology. We propose that just talking is a veiled courtship behavior that denies the intimacy it builds thereby meeting emerging adults’ needs for emotional intimacy in a social environment where speaking frankly about emotional connections and seeking stable romantic partnerships are stigmatized.

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What Are College Students Talking About When They Say They’re “Just Talking?”

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Wasserman

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“…Finalmente, se han realizado articulaciones entre consentimiento y relaciones sexoafectivas en estudiantes de educación superior (Palermo et al, 2021;Hardesty et al, 2021;Carvalho, 2020) La presente investigación es de tipo cualitativa y se realizó desde tres enfoques;…”

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Consentimiento Sexual Y Afectivo Desde Las Voces De Mujeres Estudiantes De Educación Superior en Chile

Brito Rodríguez,

Basualto Porra,

Posada Lecompte

2023

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El artículo problematiza el consentimiento afectivo y sexual desde las voces de mujeres estudiantes de educación superior chilenas. Para ello, se realiza una investigación cualitativa que analiza sus narrativas sobre violencia sexual y femicidio, compartidas a través de grupos de discusión. Los principales resultados dan cuenta de que las estudiantes se sienten vulneradas en sus contextos privados y públicos, toda vez que, en la cultura patriarcal, están naturalizadas formas y estilos de relación que invisibilizan y menoscaban el consentimiento de las jóvenes, sintiendo, además, que el peligro de sufrir violencia se estrecha a los espacios familiares, académicos y sexoafectivos.

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“Dude, Come On, Like, Let’s Just Do the Thing”: Men’s and Women’s Navigations of Sexual Communication and Sexual Consent in Australia

Waling,

James,

Moor

2024

Sex Res Soc Policy

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Introduction Notions of effective sexual communication and consent have shifted towards an enthusiastic consent framework. This study explored how young cisgender heterosexual men and women apply these concepts in casual sexual encounters. Methods Six single-gender and mixed gender focus groups of 44 participants were conducted with young cisgender heterosexual men and women living in Australia in 2021. Participants were asked about their dating and sexual practices, as well as their understanding and navigation of sexual communication and sexual consent practices using vignette methodologies. Findings were analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis techniques. Results The findings highlight tensions between how participants understand what constitutes good practices of sexual communication and consent, and how they expected characters in the vignettes, or themselves, to engage in similar scenarios. These involved (1) gendered power dynamics in sexual encounters; (2) the need for context in universal assumptions; and (3) differences between expectations and personal actions in similar scenarios. Conclusions The participants express a high degree of knowledge of what constitutes best practice for sexual communication and sexual consent. However, such knowledge is not necessarily engaged in their lived experiences of sex for a variety of reasons. Policy Implications While current educational and health promotion methods for topics such as sexual communication and consent are valuable, they may be limited in efficacy. Sexual encounters are often complex, and are influenced by culture, religion, and various emotions. Decision-making in such situations involves known and unknown variables. A deeper understanding of these processes is needed to develop more nuanced resources.

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Indiscrete: How Typical College Student Sexual Behavior Troubles Affirmative Consent’s Demand for Clear Communication

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

What Are College Students Talking About When They Say They’re “Just Talking?”

What Are College Students Talking About When They Say They’re “Just Talking?”

Consentimiento Sexual Y Afectivo Desde Las Voces De Mujeres Estudiantes De Educación Superior en Chile

“Dude, Come On, Like, Let’s Just Do the Thing”: Men’s and Women’s Navigations of Sexual Communication and Sexual Consent in Australia

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