Sexual consent in Greece and the United States : a cultural comparison
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Despite a growing, global social pressure to emphasize the importance of sexual consent, there remains a lack of empirical research into the topic. Though research into sexual consent is an expanding field, there are significant gaps in our knowledge in this important area. Very little work examines the context of sexual consent embedded within cultural factors or compares processes and perspectives on consent between cultures. As a result, there is little insight into how culture influences and shapes consent. This study is an extension of a smaller study that focused on recognizing and understanding the nuances of sexual consent communication and interpretation among young adults in an American college setting. With this extension, interview data was collected from young adults in Greece. Using Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) methods, interview data from Greece and the United States were analyzed separately, and as one larger dataset. Theoretical models for each country's data were generated through the constant comparative methods consistent with CGT. Comparisons between codes for each country were also made, resulting in an overarching theoretical model and a rich discussion section examining similarities and differences between and within Greece and the United States. The three main themes that emerged from the iterative comparison of all data were Socially Constructed Expectations, Catalyst to Sexual Activity, and Behavior Throughout Sexual Activity, which are all nested within one another and within consensual sex.
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