The Joy of Consent

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In the age of #MeToo, consent has become the ultimate answer to problems of sexual harassment and violence: as long as all parties agree to sex, the act is legitimate. Critics argue that consent, and its awkward confirmation, rob sex of its sexiness. But those objections are answered with charges that to dislike the consent regime is merely to defend a masculine erotics of sile...

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In The Joy of Consent, French philosopher Manon Garcia upends the assumptions that underlie this very American debate, reframing consent as an ally of pleasure rather than a legalistic killjoy. In doing so, she rejects conventional wisdom on all sides. As a legal norm, consent can prove rickety: consent alone doesn’t make sex licit—adults engaged in BDSM are morally and legally suspect even when they consent. And nonconsensual sex is not, as many activists insist, always rape. People often agree to sex because it is easier than the alternative, she argues, challenging the simplistic equation between consent and noncoercion.

Drawing on sources rarely considered together—from Kantian ethics to kink practices—Garcia offers an alternative framework grounded in commitments to autonomy and dignity. While consent, she argues, should not be a definitive legal test, it is essential to realizing intimate desire, free from patriarchal domination. Cultivating consent makes sex sexy. By appreciating consent as the way toward an ethical sexual flourishing rather than a legal litmus test, Garcia adds a fresh voice to the struggle for freedom, equality, and security from sexist violence.

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Manon Garcia is the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives. A Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a junior professor at Freie Universität Berlin, she has taught at the University of Chicago and Yale University. She received the Prix des Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco for the best book of philosophy published in France in 2...

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0 有用 Enlightening 2024-04-10 14:55:50 加拿大

最近几年出版的性伦理研究里比较空洞无新意的一本，且标题有噱头之嫌，到头来仍没说清consent究竟如何通往joy，以“何为以及如何实现morally good sex”作为研究问题本身恐怕就存在问题，如果靠强调respect和autonomy/subjectivity有用为何还有这么多consensual yet unjoyful sex？另外本书研究性同意但高度顺直女中心，但凡涉及交叉性宛如交差... 最近几年出版的性伦理研究里比较空洞无新意的一本，且标题有噱头之嫌，到头来仍没说清consent究竟如何通往joy，以“何为以及如何实现morally good sex”作为研究问题本身恐怕就存在问题，如果靠强调respect和autonomy/subjectivity有用为何还有这么多consensual yet unjoyful sex？另外本书研究性同意但高度顺直女中心，但凡涉及交叉性宛如交差，提一句“我也关注到男性、非二元和非异性恋关系同样受父权制对同意和欲望的影响”（这还用说？）和提到gender时并列上race和class本身可算不上合格的交叉性写作。 (展开)

0 有用术士Gandalf 2024-04-14 13:53:07 上海

A much needed problematisation of consent. Up until the last chapter the book explicates how consent is frustratingly constructed as a gateway to good sex in modern culture. The last chapter however, ... A much needed problematisation of consent. Up until the last chapter the book explicates how consent is frustratingly constructed as a gateway to good sex in modern culture. The last chapter however, feels tagged on, and the “good will” solutions bring us no closer to the titular “joy of consent”. (展开)