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Enthusiastic Consent

The standard that consent should be a clear yes, not merely the absence of no.

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Enthusiastic consent moves the bar from the legal to the relational: not 'they didn't refuse' but 'they actively wanted'. It is sometimes critiqued as unrealistic — desire is not always loud — but functions as a useful default.

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