A Yes no maybe list or a Yes no maybe checklist is a list of
sexual activities and other information designed for
sexual partners to better communicate and understand each other's desires and limitations. Typical use of such a list is each partner fills out a questionnaire naming a sexual act and checks 'yes' for interested in that act, 'no' for not interested and 'maybe' for maybe interested. It can also note as to whether the partners want to be giving or receiving and other information such as
sexual trauma triggers or
safe word
In BDSM, a safeword is a code word, series of code words or other signal used by a person to communicate their physical or emotional state, typically when approaching, or crossing, a physical, emotional, or moral boundary. Some safewords are use ...
s. Such lists are common in
BDSM
BDSM is a variety of often Eroticism, erotic practices or Sexual roleplay, roleplaying involving Bondage (BDSM), bondage, Discipline (BDSM), discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given ...
communities and are separately also popular with
sex therapists for their clients to improve communication.
Lists such as these have been made into apps, such as Spicer and have been used as a means of measuring
sexual consent
Sexual consent is consent to engage in sexual activity. In many jurisdictions, sexual activity without consent is considered rape or other forms of sexual assault.
Academic discussion of consent
In the late 1980s, academic Lois Pineau argued tha ...
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