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Canadian feminist author Anne Thériault laments “the still-pervasive and very flawed idea that if she doesn’t say no, it’s not rape” [/quote]

Surely you're not saying that this idea is flawed? Because the alternative is the idea that I'm saying yes unless I explicitly said no.[/quote]
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I'm specifically speaking about the situation where a woman agrees to sex but is inwardly uncomfortable but does not express it to her partner.[/b]According to her, yes, that would fall under rape.

I also find this affirmative consent yes means yes business stupid. There was once in a drunken fit I invited a cute boy from upstairs to my dorm. No words were said. Under this yes means yes what we did, I probably raped him. Oh no he raped me. ridiculous.
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"Affirmative consent" doesn't actually mean that you have to continuously verbalize "yes".

And setting aside Anne Theriault, whom I've never heard of, and even if I had, so what? given that there is no World Committee of Feminism that authorized her to speak on behalf of all feminists -- would you want to have sex with a partner whose enthusiasm consisted of not explicitly objecting to it? I wouldn't. And if I had a son, I would advise him to not do that.[/quote]

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