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Did the sexual revolution go wrong?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is Consent a Good Legal Basis Line?

I think that consent is a great legal base line. It's the floor that we have to have below all our sexual encounters so that they aren't actively illegal, actively assaulting someone else. I also think that consent can be used as kind of a fig leaf for selfishness in many cases. And i think it provides a lot of cover for people who would abuse it by getting consent, ostensibly for activities they shouldn't be doing. We need to go beyond that as a kind of base line standard.

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