In Canada, the law requires that another person get your consent before starting any sexual activity with you. To give your consent is to give permission, or agree to do something. Any time someone wants to do something sexual with you, that person is not allowed unless he or she asks and you say yes.

The other person does NOT have your consent if:

• You say no
• You give no reply
• The other person does not ask because you gave consent in the past
• You are too drunk or stoned to know what you’re doing
• The other person manipulates, pressures, threatens or forces you to say yes
• The other person lies about what he or she wants to do with you.

By law, a child or young person can never consent to sexual activity with an adult. In any situation and with any person, you have the right to set your own sexual limits – to choose what you do and don’t want to do. Trust your instincts as to what those limits are. Other people must respect those limits. In other words, you have the right to say no to any sexual activity.