Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape by Friedman & Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti

Author:Friedman & Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti [Friedman & Friedman, Jaclyn & Valenti, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781580052573
Publisher: 2.13.61
Published: 2008-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

The question then becomes: How do we stop assumptive touch? How do we get our bodies off the maps of consent? Demanding total and ongoing explicit verbal consent is incredibly effective at restoring body sovereignty—my experience, as well as my lovers’, has been that its impacts extend far beyond reclaiming touch and sex, as if that weren’t incredibly powerful in and of itself. But the price in social punishment is also incredibly high, and the practice itself is impossible to perfect. Nor do I think it’s the only “acceptable” method we have to challenge assumptive touch. But until and unless we challenge ourselves to move deeper than sex, to own all of our bodies and to lay claim to no others, to find out what joys lie beneath the dull, accumulated numbness of hundreds of mini-traumas, we will never get all of our bodies back, and rape culture can never disappear; it can only shrink. Consider this a challenge: If only for an hour, a day, a week, or a month, practice explicit verbal consent and demand it from others—and then find a way to keep that feeling. You won’t regret it.

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