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Consent and "Enthusiastic Maybe"

Come As You Are

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The Dual Control Model, the Brakes and the Accelerator

We don't want to listen to a sex podcast to learn to have bare minimum consensual sex. It became clear that the conversation about consent needed to be more nuanced than just enthusiastic. The point of responsive desire is your enthusiasm emerges only once you have preheated the oven, right? You have to sort of get started. And for me, one of the key things about the dual control model is it tells us why and how ambivalence is normal.

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