Consent is a moment-to-moment agreement that can be withdrawn anytime. You can say yes at 11:00 and no at 11:05, and that new decision is what matters. Changing your mind is a fundamental right.
Consent's all about in the moment, and that's phrase that people don't use a lot, but it's critically important. Consent is in the moment, and moments change by the second. And be well, you can't change your mind. You can't reverse your decision. And this is really key, Mike, for people to understand. If at eleven I said yes, and at eleven o five I said no, that does not reverse the last five minutes. I gave you a yes for the last five minutes. It now gives me a new choice for the next five minutes, and in the next hour, in the next thirty seconds, I am a no. So for the rest of this night, this is a no. I have that choice. We live in a We pride ourselves on freedom, but so many people like to say, well, you can't change your mind. Yeah, I can. That's why we live in America. We can change our mind. It's my body. Even if I gave you a yes an hour ago, even if I told you tonight at 11, at 10:45, that's not consent until 11 when I say yes.
