From maintaining safety to the maintaining of boundaries, privacy plays a crucial role in informing our sexuality and preserving our sexual wellbeing. Sometimes, it becomes the very thing that helps us protect our sexual identities, and at other times, it helps us gain autonomy over our sexual choices, and explore our sexuality, without fear of judgment. Robot Hugs’ comic on Privacy illustrates the relationship between privacy and sexuality and what privacy has to do with consent.

Originally published on Everyday Feminism