{"id":10306,"date":"2026-01-17T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/?p=10306"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:45:24","slug":"what-is-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/what-is-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Consent? Understanding Its Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is consent? Consent is a clear, voluntary and ongoing agreement between individuals before engaging in any physical or intimate activity. Typically, consent is considered in the context of some kind of physical activity with a partner, where both individuals should feel comfortable and openly agree to what they want to engage in.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Typically consent is considered in the context of some kind of physical activity with a partner. Both the partners should be able to comfortably and openly talk and agree about what kind of activity they want to engage in. It could be mere touching, holding, kissing, intercourse or anything else, it\u2019s essential that both the partners should feel comfortable with whatever is happening.<\/p>\n

Consent DOES NOT ONLY mean that only one person has the responsibility to accept or resist an activity. It is also about what someone does NOT want to do, rather than being about telling what they want to do. If consent isn\u2019t given by both the partners, then it is considered as sexual assault.<\/p>\n

What Is Consent and How Does It Really Work?<\/h4>\n

How does it works<\/strong><\/p>\n

People, especially teens, feel that talking about getting a consent will be either awkward or ruin the moment, however, that\u2019s not so. Note that when both the partners feel safe and can freely talk to each other about what they want, they\u2019d both be more positive. You can consider having these talks when you\u2019re not being physically intimate.<\/p>\n

However, if you are caught in the heat if the moment, here are some suggestive things to say:<\/p>\n

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  • Are you comfortable?<\/li>\n
  • Is this okay?<\/li>\n
  • Do you want to slow down?<\/li>\n
  • Do you want to go any further?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    What consent looks like<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Communicating in every step of the way.<\/li>\n
    • Know that when they don\u2019t say \u201cno,\u201d it doesn\u2019t mean \u201cyes.\u201d Consent should be clear and enthusiastic. If your partner stays silent and doesn\u2019t respond or says \u201cMay be\u201d, then that\u2019s not a \u201cyes\u201d.<\/li>\n
    • Break away from gender rules. Girls are not the only ones who might want to take it slow. Also, it\u2019s not a guy\u2019s job to initiate the action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      These should NOT be considered as signs of consent<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • Presuming that dressing sexy, flirting, accepting a drink etc. is a way of giving consent to anything more.<\/li>\n
      • Saying yes or nothing under the influence of drugs or alcohol.<\/li>\n
      • Saying yes because you feel too pressured or afraid to say no.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Is Consent necessary every time?<\/strong><\/p>\n

        Yes! In a healthy relationship, it is vital that you discuss and respect each other\u2019s limits on a regular basis. If your partner has given consent once for any activity it does not mean they are also consenting for the same forever. No matter if it\u2019 the first time or the hundredth, whether you\u2019re committed or not, consent is necessary every time. After all, everyone has a right to their body and to feel comfortable with how they use it.<\/p>\n

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        Not much has been talked about consent, except for the phrase \u2018no means no\u2019. So it\u2019s pretty much clear that you don\u2019t know what it is or what it\u2019s not<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-identity-lgbtqia-concern"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10306"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15532,"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306\/revisions\/15532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytalkindia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}