Is "affirmative consent" a solution to ending sexual assault on campuses?
Or elsewhere?
“Affirmative consent” is the practice of “actively, mutually soliciting enthusiasm throughout a sexual encounter” and it is a legal standard for universities in California and New York.
College students learn about it in seminars and orientations. But research shows that very few students actually engage in it.
So:
1. Is this at all a realistic goal for sexual encounters?
2. Have you ever practiced “affirmative consent”?
It almost sounds to me like the “common core” of sex: an unrealistic way of doing something that goes against human nature and that no one will actually use in practice.
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