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Did the sexual revolution go wrong?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Consent Isn't Enough, Right?

i think it's important to recognize that desire doesn't exist in a vacuum, right? There are kinks that fetishize inequality, or that normalize oppressive preferences. And sex acts that very clearly eroticize degradation, or dehumanize on or objectification. i talk about the idea of uncritical sexitivity, the idea that you must be so gung ho about everything that you don't really have room for anything else. If enthusiastic consent even isn't enough, then i'm not sure where that leads us. I mean, i thisis a thing about moral neutrality. We live in a liberal democracy, and a liberal democracy runs on open ended conversation. That's the alternative to violence

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