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The Complexity of Consent
I think one of the problems there is that consent is, I won't say impossible to define, but it's incredibly difficult to define for precisely the reasons that Foucault would point out with discourses of power. The MeToo movement raised public consciousness about what does it mean for a no-name woman desperate to get a job in a movie? And she consents to having sexual relations with a movie mogul like Harvey Weinstein. What does it mean when the power difference is so huge? As we move to this situation where sexual morality has been effectively interpreted of any intrinsic moral value, we move to a position where sexual activity,. the morality of sexual activity is pretty much determined by an extr