We should not view consent as a just rigid precaution but also a tool to improve communication. Instead of simply a yes or no question, it’s a dialogue that we should use to navigate all interactions with a person.

To go through trauma is not a next-in-line ticket to a Good Lover™, nor does it need to be.

The Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at Western University includes non-contact unwanted sexual experience and cyber-flashing, as manifestations of cyber misogyny which is defined as “the various forms of gendered hatred, harassment, and abusive behaviour targeted at women and girls via the Internet.”