Screw Consent - A Better Politics of Sexual Justice Fischel Joseph J.Paperback / softback
When we talk about sex--whether great, good, bad, or unlawful--we often turn to consent as both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach…
Specifikacia Screw Consent - A Better Politics of Sexual Justice Fischel Joseph J.Paperback / softback
When we talk about sex--whether great, good, bad, or unlawful--we often turn to consent as both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionable youth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy?What if these are all the wrong questions? What if our preoccupation with consent is hindering a safer and better sexual culture? By foregrounding sex on the social margins (bestial, necrophilic, cannibalistic, and other atypical practices), Screw Consent shows how a sexual politics focused on consent can often obscure, rather than clarify, what is wrong about wrongful sex.Joseph J. Fischel argues that the consent paradigm, while necessary for effective sexual assault law, diminishes and perverts our ideas about desire, pleasure, and injury. In addition to the