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by hackinthebochs 1892 days ago
>If the other person doesn’t enthusiastically and unconditionally consent, then it’s rape

This is wrong and dumb. There is nothing wrong with unenthusiastic sex. Criminalizing 90% of normal human sexual behavior is obscene. This is an example of where the cautionary rhetoric has intentionally or unintentionally morphed to be the baseline. The idea of enthusiastic consent was to avoid the possibility of someone feeling coerced but afraid to speak up. Now its transformed to enthusiastic consent being the baseline. This arms race to control social norms by way of emotional manipulation needs to stop.