Joseph Fischel on 'Screw Consent: Horses, Corpses, Kink & Cannibals'

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Published on Jul 15, 2021
When it comes to sex, why are we magnetized by consent? Instead of renovating consent to make it sexy, affirmative, or enthusiastic, Professor Joseph Fischel argues we should get rid of it, at least for our sexual justice activism. By interrogating sex on the marginsâ€”sex that is atypical, non-normative, or just weirdâ€”Fischel shores up several ways consent is insufficient for ethically gauging what we think of as ordinary sex in its typically heterosexual, typically couple form. Once we relax our allegiance to consent, what other values might help us realize a more democratically hedonic sexual culture?

Joseph Fischel is an associate professor of Womenâ€™s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Yale University.

This Oct. 19, 2017 talk was the first in the Haas Institute's Research to Impact Faculty Colloquium Series. Read more about the series here: http://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/researchtoimpactseries

Download the PowerPoint presentation from this talk here: http://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/1screwconsent.berkeley.2017.ppt

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