What is "consensual"

Usage examples of "consensual".

Raina had been his first lover, and Raina had been into sadomasochism on a scale that made a joke out of safe, sane, and consensual.

A thing of random human accretion, monstrous and superb, it is being reconstituted here, retranslated from its later incarnation as a realm of consensual fantasy.

Gibson's word consensual implies a constraint far stronger, and far more sinister, than the mere legal notion of a formal acceptance by all parties.

Even suicide, as Blanchot sadly notes, is still an exertion of the will, still a consensual affirmation of reality.

If it wasn't for the fact that he bled all over the front seat of my Spinner, I'd say that in Jay MacDougal you and I had suffered a consensual hallucination.

I had finally accepted, after years of struggle and purely on the basis of our encounter with them that night, that the allies had a consensual form, a substance which could be perceived equally by everyone's senses.

A horse is trained to certain paces, and the colt inherits similar consensual movements.

Nowadays, it is sometimes thought more philosophical to say that a covenant is a formal contract, which survives alongside of the ordinary consensual contract, just as happened in the Roman law.

I submit there is a distinct moral difference between coercing an innocent to participate in forceful action, and requiring that someone fulfill a previously agreed-upon, consensual contract.

Her relationship with Durbin was consensual and intended to give pleasure on both sides.

The point of the book—and it's certainly my perception of the kinds of enslavements we live under in contemporary America—is that they're consensual, voluntary enslavements.

But Tuttle plays fair and the re-suit is a novel that explores the boundaries of consensual reality and perception in as fascinating a manner as any it's been my pleasure to read.

After he’d had a few girls up to his room – none of Bernice’s business, and they’d been quiet enough, apart from some pharmaceutically induced giggling and a lot of understandable moans – she’d manifested her views on consensual sex by making a bonfire of all Jimmy’s jockey shorts.

Responding to the question of whether the Supreme Court should hold sodomy to be a fundamental constitutional right, Republican senator Rick Santorum made the indisputably true point that a general right to engage in consensual sex would logically include adultery, polygamy, and any number of sex acts prohibited by the states.

For purposes of getting along with other navies they assigned their personnel equivalent seniorities, but the fact of the matter was that not even the Tabbies truly understood how the consensual Gorm picked their military officers.