In the wake of the #MeToo movement, there has been a lot of focus on consent. However, that focus takes the spotlight away from other strategies that can better inform ethical sex.
Yeah, perfect consent would seemingly require perfect information, and most people simply aren't going to get to know all their partners extremely well before having sex (note that "extremely well" can leave out important stuff, too, sometimes even unintentionally).
There's also an element of accepting that you don't know everything about a partner but choosing to have sex with them anyway. If you choose to sleep with someone you just met that night, for instance, you're accepting that you know very little about them, so it doesn't make sense to take them to task if you find something out later that you don't like (the obvious exception here is if they omitted they have an STD). It really doesn't make sense to retroactively call that sex non-consensual.
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Yeah, perfect consent would seemingly require perfect information, and most people simply aren't going to get to know all their partners extremely well before having sex (note that "extremely well" can leave out important stuff, too, sometimes even unintentionally).
There's also an element of accepting that you don't know everything about a partner but choosing to have sex with them anyway. If you choose to sleep with someone you just met that night, for instance, you're accepting that you know very little about them, so it doesn't make sense to take them to task if you find something out later that you don't like (the obvious exception here is if they omitted they have an STD). It really doesn't make sense to retroactively call that sex non-consensual.
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