"Next Time" Means "No": Sexual Consent and the Structure of Refusals
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https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2020.4.8390Keywords:
sexual consent, affirmative consent, refusal, #MeToo, sexual violenceAbstract
This paper emphasizes a need to recognize sexual refusals both in public discourse and in the context of particular interactions. I draw on sociolinguistic work on the structure of refusals to illuminate a much-discussed case of alleged sexual violence as well as to inform how we ought to think and talk about sexual consent and refusal more generally. I argue on empirical and ideological grounds that we ought to impute the same significance to refusals uttered in sexual contexts as we do to those uttered in nonsexual contexts. Finally, I propose an amendment to the definition of affirmative consent that would put it in line with the conclusions drawn in the rest of the paper.Downloads
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2020-12-14
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Clausen, Ginger Tate. 2020. “"Next Time" Means ‘No’: Sexual Consent and the Structure of Refusals”. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 6 (4). https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2020.4.8390.
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