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Book SynopsisWhen we talk about sexwhether great, good, bad, or unlawfulwe often turn to consentas both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionableyouth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy? What if these are all the wrong questions? What if our preoccupation with consent is hindering a safer and better sexual culture? By foregrounding sex on the social margins (bestial, necrophilic, cannibalistic, and other atypical practices), Screw Consentshows how a sexual politics focused on consent can often obscure, rather than clarify, what is wrong about wrongful sex. Joseph J. Fischel argues thatthe consent paradigm, while necessary for effective sexual assault law, diminishes and perverts our ideas about desire, pleasure, and injury. In addition to the criticisms against consent leveled by feminist theorists of earlier generations, Fischel elevates three more: consent is insufficient, inapposi
Trade Review“Powerful and provoking. . . .
Screw Consent is a must-read for those vested in better understanding of sexuality, sexual violence, and sexual justice.” * CHOICE *
"Drawing from case law and written in an engaging manner, Screw Consent explores the meanings of giving consent to sexual relations in unusual arenas where the definition and even the possibility that a traditionally defined affirmative, active, vocalized consent, legal or not, may be at best limited."
* GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: When Consent Isn't Sexy
1. Kink and Cannibals, or Why We Should Probably Ban
American Football
2. The Trouble with Mothers' Boyfriends, or Against Uncles
3. The Trouble with Transgender "Rapists"
4. Horses and Corpses: Notes on the Wrongness of Sex
with Children, the Inappositeness of Consent, and
the Weirdness of Heterosomething Masculinity
5. Cripping Consent: Autonomy and Access
With Hilary O’Connell
Conclusion: #MeFirst—Undemocratic Hedonism
Appendices
Notes
Court Cases Cited
Bibliography
Index
