To conclude a long series

so I can move on to other topics for a little while, here’s something on consent from I Blame the Patriarchy (some citation stuff here):
The Twist-Solution
My wacky consent scheme flips it around. According to my scheme, women would abide in a persistent legal condition of not having given consent to sex. Conversely, men, who after [...]

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Another Post About Force Pt. 2

After writing this post, I started thinking a little bit more about what happens when victims do fight back during rapes that have so far only included the threat of violence.
A few years ago, I read the book Understanding Sexual Violence, by Diana Sculley. Sculley interviewed hundreds of convicted rapists to try and learn something [...]

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Another post about force

Re-reading this, I feel like I wasn’t as clear as I wanted to be in explaining the threatened and implied force that motivates a rape victim to cooperate during a “non-violent” rape attempt.
I started thinking about when I was a kid taking martial arts classes. My sensei frequently took the girls aside and talked to [...]

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Okay, so I have been drinking

This blog was recently featured on the Carnival of Sexual Violence; specifically, this entry, about losing a friend due to talking about rape. Since then, some other folk have linked me, and my blog is now exploding on another entry about a similar topic. As a result (also, there is bourbon involved) I’ve spent the [...]

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