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"&amp;quot;Can I go down on you?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No,&amp;quot; I responded, breathless. &amp;quot;Not yet.&amp;quot; I was in bed with a new hookup, waiting to trust him more. He kissed me, then looked at me seriously. &amp;quot;You know I&amp;#039;d never do anything without your permission, right?&amp;quot; Explicit consent is unfortunately rare on the American college scene. As a response, students at Oberlin are now making it a common conversation. In both serious and casual relationships, consent is established early on. Fliers about consent are taped up in campus bathrooms, and forums are held every semester. &amp;quot;We keep repeating this tagline: Consent is sexy,&amp;quot; says Lindsay*, a junior. &amp;quot;But consent isn&amp;#039;t just something that makes a hookup sexier. It&amp;#039;s what makes a hookup not assault.&amp;quot; Also, practicing consent shows my partner that I know exactly what I want ... and that&amp;#039;s hot. The fact that my hookup asked for my consent made me feel so much more comfortable \u2014 and more turned on. I let him go down on me that night after all. * Names have been changed Sophia Ottoni-Wilhelm is a senior at Oberlin who blogs about sex and Game of Thrones. This article was originally published as &amp;quot;Where Consent is Sexy&amp;quot; in the September 2014 issue of Cosmopolitan. Click here to subscribe to the digital edition! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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