Models of Sexual Consent Communication by Film Rating: A Content Analysis

Willis, Malachi; Canan, Sasha N.; Rhoads, Kelley; Hunt, Mary E.

doi:10.1007/s12119-020-09731-7

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“…Willis, Jozkowski and Read, 2019) and the reliance of non-verbal cues in popular culture examples (e.g. Willis et al, 2020), it is logical to understand the complexities involved in negotiating sexual consent.…”

Section: Intricacies Of Sexual Consentmentioning

confidence: 99%

UK university students’ perceptions and negotiations of sexual consent

Wignall

Stirling

Scoats

2020

Psychology & Sexuality

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There is a growing recognition of the importance of trying to understand how sexual consent is understood and negotiated, yet research in this area is still developing. In particular, there is a need to better understand how young adults, a group significantly more likely to be victims of sexual assault, negotiate sexual consent across a range of cultural settings. Utilising semi-structured interviews, this research explores 20 British University students' perspectives and behaviours regarding sexual consent. Through thematic analysis, three key themes were identified: consent is often assumed in sexual settings; consent is understood to be important, but often taboo to discuss; and consent can be negotiated in complex ways. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the realities of how consent is being enacted and understood and have implications for campaigns which aim to reduce instances of sexual assault on campus.

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Section: Intricacies Of Sexual Consentmentioning

confidence: 99%

UK university students’ perceptions and negotiations of sexual consent

Wignall

Stirling

Scoats

2020

Psychology & Sexuality

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“…For the purpose of this study, we distinguish between sexual initiation attempts that comprise the combination of verbal and nonverbal cues indicating agreement from both sexual partners, which are consistent with legal and institutional definitions of sexual consent, and sexual initiation attempts that rely on nonverbal cues only. Examining the effects of exposure to affirmative sexual consent against those of nonverbal sexual initiation cues is important given that previous research has conceptualized nonverbal cues as a form of sexual consent (e.g., Willis, Jozkowski, et al, 2020), and given that nonverbal cues alone are seen as sufficiently indicative of their partner’s consent for many young adults (Harrell et al, 2023). We predict that adolescents exposed to verbal, compared to nonverbal, sexual initiation portrayals will report greater intention to seek verbal consent (Hypothesis 1a [H1a]), greater perceptions of women’s sexual agency (Hypothesis 1b [H1b]), lower perceptions of women as sexual objects (Hypothesis 1c [H1c]), and lower perceptions of men as sex-driven (Hypothesis 1d [H1d]).…”

Section: Sexual Script Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Media portrayals of sexual consent and refusal influence adolescents’ gender-related attitudes.

Alexopoulos,

Cingel,

Stevens

2024

Psychology of Popular Media

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“…Young people who look to popular media for sex education may get no more instruction than what is offered by their schools and parents. A content analysis of popular mainstream films from 2013 revealed that consent was more commonly conveyed through implicit nonverbal rather than explicit verbal communication (Jozkowski et al, 2019;Willis et al, 2020). Thus, by the time American adolescents reach young adulthood, they seem to have a dearth of formal tools for negotiating a process that they deem to be important.…”

Section: Gender Inequality As a Barrier To The Negotiation Of Sexual Consentmentioning

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“Consent Is F#@king Required”: Hashtag Feminism Surrounding Sexual Consent in a Culture of Postfeminist Contradictions

Kettrey

Davis

Liberman

2021

Social Media + Society

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Hashtag feminism exists in a time of postfeminist contradictions marked by the simultaneous existence of popular feminism and popular misogyny. In one such contradiction, popular feminism has led women to expect the successful negotiation of sexual consent, while popular misogyny permits the circulation of traditional sexual scripts that disregard the necessity of consent. In this study, we analyze messages conveyed through digitized narratives of sexual consent posted on Tumblr, a social media site that is popular among feminist activists, to identify the ways that users construct meaning around the dissonance between expectations for consent and the inequalities that inhibit its negotiation. We specifically explore whether hashtag feminism navigates postfeminist contradictions in a way that simultaneously calls out misogyny and calls on feminism. We find that the Tumblr posts in our sample did both, albeit in a manner that failed to offer tangible solutions to the problem at hand. Calls on feminism were largely limited to tagging feminist allies and recirculating existing feminist campaigns. Thus, we argue that the hashtag ultimately became a handoff to a larger feminist abstraction. Future research should explore conditions under which activists link tangible issues, actors, and agendas to an otherwise abstract popular feminism.

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Models of Sexual Consent Communication by Film Rating: A Content Analysis

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

UK university students’ perceptions and negotiations of sexual consent

UK university students’ perceptions and negotiations of sexual consent

Media portrayals of sexual consent and refusal influence adolescents’ gender-related attitudes.

“Consent Is F#@king Required”: Hashtag Feminism Surrounding Sexual Consent in a Culture of Postfeminist Contradictions

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