Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "consenting adult".
They could, and would, do anything on Beta Colony, if you had the money and could convince them you were a freely consenting adult.
Pomayla was overly shy about normal behaviour between consenting adult beings.
On the other hand, practice a sexual preference in the privacy of your own home with a consenting adult and you're out of there.
Forced, because it's difficult to carry a co-operating and consenting adult undertime, let alone two unconscious ones.
Forced, because it's difficult to carry a cooperating and consenting adult undertime, let alone two unconscious ones.
But, Your Honor, she is of age, after all, a consenting adult-' DON'T BULLSHIT ME WITH LEGALISMS, PORTNOY.
I was a hundred and ninety pounds of muscle and no fat, and I could never convince myself that a female four feet ten inches tall and weighing less than ninety pounds and looking twelve years old is in fact a freely consenting adult.
If she wasn't behaving like a consenting adult, she was doing a damn fine imitation.