Do Sexual Consent Policies Shortchange the Complex Desires of Women?

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Katherine Angel insists that “pleasure involves risk.”

, Angel argues that consent culture, and the assertion of female desire it demands, is not the panacea that its most energetic proponents proclaim it to be. It’s not just that exhortations to sexual frankness clash with women’s uneasy awareness that they could later be punished for speaking openly of their desires.

Except that Angel hasn’t really convinced me that consent culture does this. It doesn’t, for example, always insist that women map out their preferences beforehand. The Antioch policy allows for couples to negotiate throughout sex, deciding on the fly whether both of them are game to try this or that. This seems to allow for what Angel claims consent culture denies: that you might start out thinking you do or don’t want to do something, but change your mind along the way.

 

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