In reply to <a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2018/01/24/counterpoint-idealized-standards-consent-not-realistic/#comment-272811">Justine Chen</a>. Thank you Justine, well said! To add to the discussion, either within a new intimate relationship or an aged one the need for verbal consent is not something that dulls or can be ignored. To have healthy, positive sex verbal consent is necessary. Understanding your partner, ensuring their comfort and them ensuring yours is a terrific and mandatory part of engaging in sex or sexual acts. And it will only increase the connection and pleasure! Furthermore, if our culture is uncomfortable by verbal consent it is upon us as a culture to transform.