Vincent Bugliosi

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

American Author

Barney Frank

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

American Politician

Douglas Coupland

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.

Canadian Author

William Gibson

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

American Writer

Eric Greitens

The mistake that I made was that I was engaged in a consensual relationship with a woman who was not my wife. That is a mistake for which I am very sorry.

Katie Hill

I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment.

James McGreevey

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

Consensual implies every party involved agrees voluntarily, without pressure.

Voluntary Participation

A consensual agreement involves clear communication between everyone affected.

Requires Communication

Consensual must not be confused with forced or coerced actions; it's freely agreed upon.

Not Coercive

In medicine, consensual describes specific, precisely coordinated body responses.

Medical Precision

Consensual medical responses occur on both sides of the body at the same time.

Same-time Response

Doctors use consensual reflexes to diagnose potential problems efficiently.

Diagnostic Tool

 or each moral community is a matrix, a consensual hallucination. And so if you're within the blue matrix, everything's completely compelling that the other side -- they're troglodytes, they're racists, they're the worst people in the world, and you have all the facts to back that up. But somebody in the next house from yours is living in a different moral matrix.

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 to the whole discussion about human rights, to the conventions on refugees, etc. etc. That leadership happened after a big trauma and happened in a consensual political space, and now we are in a divisive political space. Actually, refugees have become one of the divisive issues. So where will leadership come from today?

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 and upvote and downvote each other's ideas. But the trick is that we show people the main divisive points, and the main consensual points, and we respond only to the ideas that can convince all the different opinion groups. So people are encouraged to post more eclectic, more nuanced ideas

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 So, a flirtatious environment really could be toxic. Question Do I need a policy on workplace relationships? You certainly need a policy on a sexual harassment, and I think most HR departments recognize that. But for the kind of consensual behavior we've been talking about,

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 inmates alleged abuse one prison I met was Fred he was imprisoned as a teenager for having consensual but underage sex with his teenage girlfriend he said that the police had mistreated him he spent three years in prison waiting for his trial where he hadn't had adequate

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 on the African continent, and the community, in large part, is silenced and hidden. But, this is not just an African issue. Clearly, half of the world makes consensual same-sex acts a crime. And, you know, many politicians see homophobia as a way to garner support from

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 But whose responsibility is education in this new world? Again, I think this responsibility is kind of up to all of us, that everything we do, everything we build, everything we make, needs to be made in a consensual discussion with everyone who's avoiding it;

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 which one could look up in a dictionary and derive origins for, and, perhaps, reach some kind of a consensual use analysis, these are essentially contested concepts. They're ideas about which people disagree in the deepest possible sense.

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 And here's what I most people are worrying about the wrong thing. They're trying to just prevent sexting from happening entirely. But let me ask you As long as it's completely consensual, what's the problem with sexting?

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 or jam a one-sided argument down their throat about pornography not only probably does not work, but really doesn't model the kind of respectful, consensual behavior that we want them to learn.