fc27974caee9b49231ad9338b93ada27 sexes_a2026v7n17iENG.pdf 3d6dec6ef4fc8b3b01ac819a9fb52ea45fa50633 sexes_a2026v7n17iENG.pdf 3bbea295f30062fa60372af168f86e225d78995f5e5f593fa249d10ab8e5a7ff sexes_a2026v7n17iENG.pdf Title: Let’s Write About It: Rethinking Sexual Consent Through Therapeutic Writing with Women in Chile Subject: As high rates of sexual violence worldwide have increasingly been met with educational initiatives promoting sexual consent as a core preventive strategy, it becomes crucial to understand how consent is actually conceptualized in specific sociocultural contexts. This study examines how a group of adult women in Chile conceptualize sexual consent and how their understandings align with, expand or diverge from the definition promoted by the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS), a widely adopted international framework. Using a therapeutic writing methodology designed to support emotional safety and reflective depth, 34 women completed a collective writing workshop. For this paper, the main writing exercise was analyzed through thematic analysis. Results show three overarching themes: sexual consent as a self-directed and desire-aligned experience; the intricacies of giving in to sexual encounters as shaped by social expectations, emotional pressures, and relational considerations; and the tensions when differentiating consent from giving in, a distinction experienced as meaningful yet fluid and learned over time. Together, these findings reveal that our participants’ conceptualizations of sexual consent extend beyond normative international models, highlighting the need for attuned consent frameworks and educational approaches designed to prevent sexual violence. Keywords: consent; sexual violence; sexual violence prevention; therapeutic writing; thematic analysis Author: Anita Tobar-Henríquez, Bárbara Berger-Correa, Sofía Monsalves and Ernesto Guerra Creator: LaTeX with hyperref Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.25; modified using OpenPDF 1.4.2 CreationDate: Thu Mar 26 08:24:40 2026 CET ModDate: Thu Mar 26 09:04:11 2026 CET Custom Metadata: yes Metadata Stream: no Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 20 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) Page rot: 0 File size: 890764 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.7 name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- FQPFNY+URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 154 0 KQLQSZ+URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 155 0 PLOLAK+VnURWPalladioL Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 156 0 FXSNGI+URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 157 0 BLFMKL+PalatinoLinotype TrueType WinAnsi yes yes no 276 0 BLFMKL+PalatinoLinotype TrueType WinAnsi yes yes no 291 0 OGBFMR+VnURWPalladioL-Italic Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 337 0 Jhove (Rel. 1.28.0, 2023-05-18) Date: 2026-05-08 04:25:01 CEST RepresentationInformation: sexes_a2026v7n17iENG.pdf ReportingModule: PDF-hul, Rel. 1.12.4 (2023-03-16) LastModified: 2026-05-07 12:53:39 CEST Size: 890764 Format: PDF Version: 1.7 Status: Well-Formed and valid SignatureMatches: PDF-hul MIMEtype: application/pdf PDFMetadata: Objects: 490 FreeObjects: 1 IncrementalUpdates: 0 DocumentCatalog: ViewerPreferences: HideToolbar: false HideMenubar: false HideWindowUI: false FitWindow: true CenterWindow: false DisplayDocTitle: false NonFullScreenPageMode: UseNone Direction: L2R ViewArea: CropBox ViewClip: CropBox PrintArea: CropBox PageClip: CropBox PageLayout: SinglePage PageMode: UseNone Outlines: Item: Title: Introduction Children: Item: Title: What Is Sexual Consent? Item: Title: The Present Study Item: Title: Materials and Methods Children: Item: Title: Participants Item: Title: Instrument Item: Title: Procedures Item: Title: Data Analysis Children: Item: Title: Data Processing Item: Title: Thematic Analysis Item: Title: Results Children: Item: Title: Consent as an Active, Intentional, and Self-Directed Process Item: Title: The Intricacies of Giving in Item: Title: Tensions When Differentiating Consent and Giving In Item: Title: Summary of Results Item: Title: Discussion Children: Item: Title: The Positive Influence of WAS Framework Item: Title: Going Beyond Global Frameworks Children: Item: Title: Embodied and Socially Shaped Consent Item: Title: Relational Pressures and the Practice of “Giving In” Item: Title: Learning the Boundary Between Consent and Giving In Item: Title: Reframing Consent: Learning, Ambiguity, and Embodied Experience Item: Title: Limitations and Future Directions Item: Title: Conclusions Item: Title: References Info: Title: Let’s Write About It: Rethinking Sexual Consent Through Therapeutic Writing with Women in Chile Author: Anita Tobar-Henríquez, Bárbara Berger-Correa, Sofía Monsalves and Ernesto Guerra Subject: As high rates of sexual violence worldwide have increasingly been met with educational initiatives promoting sexual consent as a core preventive strategy, it becomes crucial to understand how consent is actually conceptualized in specific sociocultural contexts. This study examines how a group of adult women in Chile conceptualize sexual consent and how their understandings align with, expand or diverge from the definition promoted by the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS), a widely adopted international framework. Using a therapeutic writing methodology designed to support emotional safety and reflective depth, 34 women completed a collective writing workshop. For this paper, the main writing exercise was analyzed through thematic analysis. Results show three overarching themes: sexual consent as a self-directed and desire-aligned experience; the intricacies of giving in to sexual encounters as shaped by social expectations, emotional pressures, and relational considerations; and the tensions when differentiating consent from giving in, a distinction experienced as meaningful yet fluid and learned over time. Together, these findings reveal that our participants’ conceptualizations of sexual consent extend beyond normative international models, highlighting the need for attuned consent frameworks and educational approaches designed to prevent sexual violence. 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