How do you understand the concept of informed consent?

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How do you understand the concept of informed consent to anything? Now Amnesty International, in Poland, is proposing to change the definition of rape in our legislation so that consent to sex must be explicit, now consider rape only forcing by force or deception to have sex

Personally, I am not interested in women, more in men, if you know what I meant

I am 36 I wonder how it is with these consents, not only when it comes to sex, but whether the question of consent is not formalized too much for the sphere of life which, by its very nature, should be spontaneous, which will be later will apply to a partner regardless of gender with a form, as in the tax office, maybe some stupid bureaucrat will have to approve it, that would be a good joke



By the way, when it comes to consent as such, my parents were a little overprotective, and rightly so about me, especially about something dangerous.

My friend told me to always ask my parents when they would be distracted, and preferably drunk, although in the case of my parents it was, unfortunately, or unfortunately, impossible because they rarely drank alcohol at all

A friend also said that it is best to ask them separately and never when they are together because if it happens that let's say that dad will agree and mom will not, or vice versa, you can confront them, let's say, but "mom/dad agreed" that thanks to this this person in this case the parent who disagreed will turn out to be the unkind one

This friend also said that when it comes to any activities that require formal written consent, e.g. at school, some trip, it is best to give it to the parents to sign, mixed with other papers, when they are the busiest, because there is a good chance that they will even sign it. without reading

If you want to have sex with someone, and they tell you “No”, or if they are too drunk or stoned to say “No”, or if they are unconscious, and you have sex with them anyway, you have committed rape.

If the person is under the Age of Consent, and you have sex with them, you have committed rape.

Is that clear enough?

I thought that "informed consent" was a term used for medical procedures? When I was going to go on HRT my PCP was going to let me use "informed consent" instead of getting letters from a psych.

I also honestly can't understand what you're getting at in your post. I don't see how everything you talked about relates to each other.

I understand it to be about getting a definitive "yes" each step of the way in an intimate encounter.

You have to understand that a body may react physically in ways that scream "yes" even though a person does not want to SAY yes. Intimacy with someone you aren't already in an exclusive relationship with isn't the time to try to rely on non-verbal signals. You have to get a "Yes, I want to do what you asking."