EXAMINING THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SEXUAL CONSENT AMONG YOUTHS FROM RENTAL-FLATS COMMUNITY IN SINGAPORE
FARZANA RASYIQAH BINTE ZULKARNAIN
FARZANA RASYIQAH BINTE ZULKARNAIN
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This qualitative exploratory study aimed to explore how young people from rental-flats
community in Singapore understand and communicate sexual consent. While there has been an
increased focus on consent promotion in Singapore, there is a paucity of information about
sexual consent behaviours on the ground, especially among this community of youths. There has
been substantial evidence in literature that gender and sociocultural norms play huge roles in
influencing sexual consent communication. Hence, this study utilizes the feminist orientation of
the sexual script perspective to approach this topic. Qualitative semi-structured one-to-one
interviews were carried out with youths from rental-flats community. Seven distinct themes
emerged across participants' responses: (a) definitions of sexual consent, (b) communicating
sexual consent, (c) endorsement of sexual double standard, (d) obtaining sex as male conquest,
(e) women are responsible for miscommunication, (f) deviation from the traditional sexual script,
and (g) sources of ideas of sexual consent. The study concluded that sexual consent negotiations
among youths are complicated and constrained by implicit pressures generated by gendered
norms and expectations, making it difficult to practice direct, explicit consent communication.
The findings in the study were used to generate implications for future research, social workers
and other practitioners working with youths, activists, and school sexual education curriculum
with the intention to facilitate healthy sexual consent attitudes and practices among youths.
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Sexual consent, young people, youths, rental-flats community, social workers, sexual script
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2022-10-25
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