On Good Consent, Part One | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via sexisnottheenemy)

ETA: Oh, I really like this part, too:

Personally, I use “good consent” rather than “enthusiastic consent.” Enthusiastic consent is a problematic term. Lots of people consent to sex without enthusiasm for the sex itself: sex workers, people who enjoy pleasing their partners even when they don’t desire sex, even people who are trying to conceive a child and have sex when one partner is ovulating. Similarly, there are lots of enthusiastic people who still don’t have good consent: if you’re a high school teacher and your fourteen-year-old student enthusiastically consents to sex with you, you still shouldn’t have sex with them. Good consent is a way vaguer phrase, but it’s also more all-encompassing.

“Enthusiastic consent” tended to seem a bit lacking to me, but I couldn’t quite figure out why, much less articulate it, but this pretty much sums it up.

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