Sex and consent in contemporary youth sexual culture: the ‘ideals’ and the ‘realities’

Setty, Emily

doi:10.1080/14681811.2020.1802242

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“…We found that most participants' knowledge and understanding of consent differed from their expression of their enacted consent, which is similar to previous studies (Hirsch et al, 2019;Setty, 2020). Participants' abstract definitions emphasized that consent needed to be direct and verbal but, when describing their lived experiences, most participants did not rely on that communication style.…”

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I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people

et al. 2021

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While there is much attention paid to the connection between social boundaries and consent, the relationship between consent literacy and sexual agency has not yet been explored. This qualitative analysis, which is part of a larger mixed-methods study, sought to explore the relationship between consent literacy and sexual agency in young people. Participants ( n = 18) were recruited from nonprofit organizations and were asked to complete a 30–40 minutes semi-structured interview and two questionnaires. Through our grounded theory approach to the analysis of the interviews, we identified three overarching themes and several sub-themes. The main themes were as follows: (1) Young people develop a broad understanding of sexual agency and consent through various social and environmental influences; (2) Most of consent is conceptualized through non-verbal cues (“vibes”), prior communication, and past experience with the person; (3) There are notable differences in demonstrable sexual agency between males and females and non-binary individuals, and between individuals participating in heterosexual versus queer sex acts in establishing and negotiating consent. These results provide preliminary evidence that sexual agency and consent literacy share similarities as they are being used in practice during sexual interactions. Further research is needed to deepen our understanding of how these constructs are related in order to improve levels of consent literacy.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people

et al. 2021

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“…Understanding that emerging adults lack efficacy in being able to communicate romantic interest may help explain why some emerging adults turn to inappropriate and ineffective strategies (e.g., unsolicited sexts, aggressive come-ons, repeated solicitations, social media stalking, etc.) in attempts to find dating and sexual partners (e.g., Anastassiou, 2017;Setty, 2021) and can react badly to romantic rejection (e.g., Andrighetto et al, 2019;Stratmoen et al, 2018). Emerging adult well-being is most consistently associated with ease of asking someone out on a date.…”

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Perceived Efficacy in Initiating Romantic Relationships and Single Emerging Adults’ Well-Being

Watkins

Beckmeyer

2023

Emerging Adulthood

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Using data from 313 single emerging adults living in the United States, we explored initiation-efficacy (i.e., perceived abilities related to initiating romantic relationships) and if it was associated with well-being (life satisfaction, happiness with romantic experiences, and loneliness). Most participants indicated that it is not easy to ask someone out or tell someone they are interested in them and talking with someone they have feelings for is awkward. Initiation-efficacy was associated with well-being. Specifically, reporting that it is easy to ask someone out on a date was associated with greater life satisfaction and happiness with romantic experiences, but less loneliness. Further, emerging adults were lonelier when talking to someone they have feelings for was awkward. Finally, neither relationship desire or dismissal moderated associations between initiation-efficacy and well-being. However, relationship dismissal was associated with greater life satisfaction and happiness with romantic experiences and relationship desire was associated with more loneliness.

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“…Indeed, adolescents may exchange sexts for insalubrious reasons in the context of new or established relationships. For example, qualitative studies have found that adolescents may exchange sexts to put an end to the insistence of another party, for fear of losing the interest of the other party, or to demonstrate an interest by meeting the expectations of the other party (Setty, 2019(Setty, , 2021. Educational interventions on sexting should provide youths with assertive communication strategies to recognize and manage attempts to pressure, blackmail or coerce them (e.g., by asking for a sexts as a present, or as a dare to demonstrate their love, such as "You don't love me unless you send me a nude pic").…”

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confidence: 99%

Sexting Behavior Predictors Vary With Addressee and the Explicitness of the Sexts

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The aim of this research is to examine associations of adolescent sexting with gender, being in a romantic relationship, and other online or offline sexual behaviors, using the adolescent sexting scale A-SextS as a standardized measure. Data were collected from a sample of 579 Spanish secondary school pupils (47.3% girls), between the ages of 11 and 18 (interquartile range: 13–15 years; median = 14 years). Multinomial regression models revealed that having had sexual intercourse was the most relevant predictor variable, especially for high-frequency sexting. Adolescents involved in a romantic relationship were more likely to engage in high-frequency sexting with someone known in person. Pornography consumption was mainly associated with high-frequency explicit sexting with someone known only on the internet. Lastly, females were more likely to engage in low-frequency, non-explicit sexting as well as high-frequency explicit sexting with someone known only on the internet.

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Sex and consent in contemporary youth sexual culture: the ‘ideals’ and the ‘realities’

Cited by 22 publications

References 27 publications

I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people

I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people

Perceived Efficacy in Initiating Romantic Relationships and Single Emerging Adults’ Well-Being

Sexting Behavior Predictors Vary With Addressee and the Explicitness of the Sexts

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