consenting adults
Agreeable mature parties
Consenting adults are people of legal age who freely agree to participate in something, typically sexual activity.
The phrase appears in discussions of what the law should regulate: What consenting adults do in private is their own business.
It implies that voluntary agreement between mature people removes the basis for outside interference.
- permissionGranted right to act
- volitionCapacity for choice
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- libertiesProtected individual rights
- agreementShared position between parties
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