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Understanding Consent: It's Not Just a Yes
Consent is clear, coherent, willing, and ongoing. This guide breaks down what consent actually looks like in practice and gives coaches language to teach it without sounding like a legal lecture.
Steps
- Consent is ongoing: it can be withdrawn at any time.
- Intoxication means no: someone who is drunk cannot consent.
- Silence is not consent: only an enthusiastic yes counts.
- Past consent does not mean future consent.
- Teach the 'coffee test': would you ask someone to make decisions about their body if they were sober?