affirmative consent
- Amanda Riddell
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- Jan 16
- 1 min read
Well, if you want to get with the liberal counterculture, this is often taken as a common standard. It's super unsexy, and virtually says that the partners are obligated to tell the other what they're planning to do so that they can choose to say yes or no. As for "was I giving consent by singing a demo song" ... no. It's a demo for the opera. Pegging doesn't really appeal to me.
The crux of Concerning Praiseworthy Women, or the Story of Dorerame, is consent. Beder puts him off for six months, and that makes her the symbol of purity to the King, as opposed to all the other fallen women that he wishes to kill. She puts him off with some pretty saucy stuff. She has to believe that this other man exists to be so convincing. In the book, Beder tells the King that 'A well-born lady of high origin can remain for six months without; but a lowly woman of no race or nor high blood, who does not respect herself when she can lay her hand upon a man, will have him upon her; his stomach and his member…