A Communicative Approach to Consent with Dr Joy Townsend
On The Couch8 Juli 2024

A Communicative Approach to Consent with Dr Joy Townsend

How can we include pleasure in the consent conversation? Listen as founder of Learning Consent Dr Joy Townsend goes beyond the traditional definition of consent and discusses effective role modelling and consent culture in todays society. Learning Consent delivers comprehensive relationships, sexuality and consent education programs for educational institutions and organisations. Joy shares with Naomi her passion for helping young people to catch a vision for how great communicative, connected and pleasurable sex can be.

This episode was recorded in March 2023

CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode references sexual assault and sexual violence 

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References

Learning Consent

Joy’s PHD “Her sexual self: A narrative investigation of young women’s sexual subjectives”

Marie-Pierre Cleret

UNESCO International technical guidance on sexuality education

Comprehensive Consent Sarah Casper

French Philosopher – communicative approach to consent

Bad sex vs sexual violence blog

Laurie Penny

Secondary School Survey 

Liz Kelly’s Continuum of sexual violence

Professor Michael Flood

Porn literacy curriculum

Betty Dodson

National Student Safety Survey

Credits

Host: Naomi Viret

Guest: Joy Townsend

Producers: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript)

NSW Health social media community guidelines

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