Within debates about sexual violence one concept has increasingly moved to the
fore - sexual consent. As consent is closely tied to power dynamics within
heteronormative discourses, its negotiation depends on the people involved and how
they communicate, define, and experience sexual consent. Moreover, previous
research suggests that adolescents tend to get information about certain facets of
sexuality from television. Hence, this case study aims to analyse how sexual consent
communication ...
Within debates about sexual violence one concept has increasingly moved to the
fore - sexual consent. As consent is closely tied to power dynamics within
heteronormative discourses, its negotiation depends on the people involved and how
they communicate, define, and experience sexual consent. Moreover, previous
research suggests that adolescents tend to get information about certain facets of
sexuality from television. Hence, this case study aims to analyse how sexual consent
communication is depicted in teen shows, in particular, in the show ‘The Sex Lives
Of College Girls’ (HBO Max, 2021). In the scope of content analysis, this research
applies a codebook by Jozkowski et al. (2016) to analyse 28 scenes of 10 episodes
of the show. The most common consent and refusal communication cues were
implicit verbal and explicit nonverbal cues.
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