As an undergraduate, I took an applied ethics course that included Lois Pineau’s paper, “Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis.” Pineau discusses our society’s conception of what normal sex looks like—namely, a male person aggressively pursuing sex with an at-least-somewhat-reluctant female person who eventually acquiesces if the male person’s advances are successful. She argues that, given […]
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