26 February

Consent is back in the news. I think it will always be back in the news, because it’s the wrong concept to solve problems with sexual assault. It’s obvious that nobody should have unwanted intimacy. But that’s what love and courting are all about, testing what is ‘wanted’. You often just don’t know what you want in those situations, it evolves. Consent assumes you know beforehand, so you can have some neat point where you agree ‘yep, right to go here’. I think that’s delusional in all but the most obvious cases. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/too-many-think-silence-is-consent-victim-says-rape-endemic-in-eastern-suburbs-20210220-p5748u.html