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Introduction

Sexual consent is emerging as an important, controversial, and poorly articulated construct that is nonetheless crucial to ensuring the appropriate conduct of sexual interactions. Institutional administrators and legislative authorities face the obligation to appropriately and effectively address the problem of nonconsensual sexual interactions. Despite the significance of sexual consent, however, a systematic conceptualization of factors that contribute to sexual consent-related behaviors remains to be better developed.

Objective

The current research articulates an Information—Motivation—Behavioral Skills (IMB) model of sexual consent that aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of factors that contribute to the enactment of sexual consent-related behavior. The IMB conceptualization was selected as a theoretical model of sexual consent due to its comprehensive capture of factors that conceptually and empirically are related to enactment of sexual consent behaviors and due to its empirical support in related areas of sexual behavior. The model asserts that accurate and actionable sexual consent information, personal and social motivation to act on it, and behavioral skills for acting on it effectively, are key determinants of the performance of sexual consent behaviors that result in clear and unambiguous understanding of the willingness or unwillingness of individuals to participate in a sexual interaction.

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