Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Email: ekk. Aim: To investigate how young Danes construct sexual consent generally, but also specifically in relation to heavy alcohol intoxication. Methods: Drawing on 30 qualitative in-depth interviews with young people, aged 19β25 years, and adopting a critical discursive psychological framework, we explored the interpretative repertoires that the participants made use of to construct sexual consent and the subject positions those repertoires enabled.
Results: The participants made use of three interpretative repertoires that we named as follows: 1 sexual consent as an agreement between rational individuals; 2 sexual consent as a heteronormative practice; and 3 intoxicated sexual consent. Discussion: Young people draw on different repertoires when discussing sexual consent in general, sexual consent in relation to gendered practices and expectations, and sexual consent in relation to heavy alcohol intoxication.
Conclusion: It is vital to keep the situational nature of young people's constructions of sexual consent in mind if we wish to understand and eventually reduce the number of non-consensual sexual experiences.
Keywords: alcohol intoxication, interpretative repertoires, non-consensual sexual experience, sexual consent, subject positions, young people.
Previous research on sexual consent is extensive. Other researchers have pointed towards how young people understand sexual consent as a contract between two or more individuals about to have sex cf. Beres, ; Loick, ; MacKinnon, However, research also shows that young people are actually good at interpreting signals of sexual intent, either verbally or non-verbally Glace et al.
