Affirmitive just means &quot;yes&quot;, getting the other party to say it out loud helps if you&#x27;re really that bad at body language and non-verbal communication but is not required.<p>As someone else stated, if verbal consent was what was required, they&#x27;d call it &quot;verbal consent&quot; not &quot;affirmative consent&quot;. Affirmative meaning, from a plain dictionary definition: &quot;saying or showing that the answer is &quot;yes&quot; &lt;He gave an affirmative answer.&gt; &quot;.<p>Again, the history and context is people being raped who did not &quot;fight back&quot;, and it was held against them, and people accused of rape who said in their own defence that they didn&#x27;t think they were raping the person because they didn&#x27;t do anything to stop them. That&#x27;s not their responsibility, it&#x27;s yours to get &quot;affirmitive consent&quot;.