Or the assailant may threaten to hurt her, so she won t resist in order to prevent further harm. Women can rape, and men can be victims, but most often males are perpetrators and women are victims. We are also going to talk about alcohol and sexual assault, and we re not assuming that everyone drinks alcohol. We ll give you some statistics later about what we know about sexual assault at Penn State. Let people in the audience define what they think is consent, but only take a few responses.
Consent also falls along a continuum.
Here s what it looks like. And then the person verbally responds, Yes. And there are lots of ways to make verbal consent erotic. You can use your imagination. This can be fuzzy because if the person s been drinking, you don t know if it s the alcohol that s making it easier for them to do things.