Thread by @lesliemb

Also, has anyone read Yenor's latest book? He has an extended section in it in which he argues that affirmative consent in sex is a bad idea and that heavy petting and foreplay pretty much forfeit a woman's right to refuse penetration.

Instead of sharing and interpreting actual, real-world rape charges and listening to the experiences of rape victims, he sets up hypotheticals where, by walking the reader through a sexual encounter step-by-step, he makes the woman seem unreasonable. . .

for refusing what he calls the "wind-up and pitch," but by which he means penetration.

Anyone has the right to stop a sexual encounter at any point. If a partner persists after that point, it's sexual assault. What's so hard to understand about that?

Of course, this is a guy who in the same book also argues for ending no-fault divorce.

I know of SO MANY divorces (my own included) where, if the women were put in the position of needing to make the case for the divorce beyond irreconcilable differences, the husbands would have landed in much, MUCH worse places than with no-fault divorces.

Don't push your luck, fellas. We keep receipts for years, even decades.