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CONSENT SEXUAL ACTIVITY [1 record]

Record 1 2021-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Law
  • Rights and Freedoms
  • Sexology
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Consent to sexual activity refers to the will of the participants to engage in such activity. ... Consent needs to be ongoing and cover all the different acts within a sexual activity. This implies that consent is at any time retractable, and consenting to one act does not equal consenting to every sexual act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit social
  • Droits et libertés
  • Sexologie
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Le consentement à l'activité sexuelle fait référence à la volonté des participants de s'engager dans une telle activité. [...] Le consentement doit être continu et couvrir l'ensemble des différents actes d'une activité sexuelle. Cela implique que le consentement est à tout moment rétractable et que le fait de consentir à un acte n'équivaut pas à consentir à tout acte sexuel.

Spanish

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