Consenting to touch I didn’t want: One woman’s exploration of how often women give ‘empty consent’ to touch by men they don’t really want or feel ambivalent about, e.g. because fear something worse. nytimes.com/2021/03/31/mag… 1/4
Affirmative consent laws are valuable, but are implemented in a world in which vast numbers of people (women) are conditioned from childhood to consent to touch we don’t want. 2/4
Story of a "cuddle party", with explicit norms of affirmative consent. And how even in this context, women’s internalised compliance can mean that they agree to touch without a genuine assessment of their own desires 3/4
“If we want to normalize the sovereignty of all bodies in our society, we can. I am divesting from the system of manners that conditions me to censor my own body in ways that prioritize the desires of others over my own.”
nytimes.com/2021/03/31/mag… 4/4
nytimes.com/2021/03/31/mag… 4/4
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