A Guide to Consent

Swansea University offers a wide range of resources to seek
support if you have experienced any form of sexual misconduct.
Deciding whether to report any sexual misconduct is personal
and can be a hard decision. The right decision is to do
whatever feels best for YOU, not anyone else.
It’s understandable that you may have many questions and may
not want to speak to anybody just yet, hopefully we can answer
some of these for you:
‘I was a victim to sexual misconduct a while ago,
can I still report it?’
YES! Even if it happened to you a long time ago, you are still able to
get support and, if needed, report it to the Police.
‘I’m worried that I may be to blame, so I can’t
report it because…’
‘I didn’t fight back!’
Not fighting back can be a natural response, you may be too scared to
fight, and it may not even be the safest option to do. You may even
freeze by instinct. This doesn’t mean you are to blame.
‘I was wearing revealing clothing’
Your clothing has no correlation to consent, anything sexual that
happens to you without your consent is still sexual misconduct
regardless of your dressing. You are not to blame.