What is Classify
Consent?
3 in 5 Australians are still unable to recognise non-consensual acts in popular films and TV shows.
And what we normalise on screen, we normalise in life.
Classify Consent is a campaign for a new classification to call out lack of consent.
Non-consensual acts are in some of our favourite films and shows, in moments that are meant to be funny, romantic or charming. They’re often easy to miss. But what we watch has an impact. That’s why we classify things like “violence” and “coarse language”. And that’s why we must also classify lack of consent.
Pledge your support to bring a “lack of consent” classification to our screens.
Scenes
From rom-coms to kids’ films, see which scenes would attract our lack of consent classification, and why.
Have you watched something that might have been non-consensual?
Submit a scene to have it reviewed.
What is consent?
Free and voluntary consent to sexual activity should look and sound like an “enthusiastic yes”, not just the absence of a “no.” It has to be verbal, although non-verbal signals like enthusiastic body language can support it.
There are a number of different situations where a person cannot consent to sexual activity.
The following scenes are examples of when consent hasn’t been given, and are scenes that would receive our classification. Watch them to find out why.
FAQs
-
Consent Labs is a not-for-profit collective founded by two young Australians, Angie Wan and Dr. Joyce Yu, to provide consent education in schools and workplaces, and have a positive impact on the culture around consent.
-
The first thing you can do is pledge your support, and share it with friends and family. You can also share our campaign on social media, and submit scenes that you think should be classified here. Finally, download our "Consent Toolkit” toolkit for a great guide on affirmative consent.