Consent is Not Enough to Protect Women from Sexual Assault
The feminist author and writer Louise Perry puts forward the argument in her recent book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, originally published on 16 May 2022, which argues against the current consent framework, which is a legalistic protection against sexual assault against women.
However, the legal framework that protects women is not adequate due to the impact of the Me-Too movement and modern sexuality being detrimental to the average woman.
It also is stated by the feminist author that this kind of argument is hard to express by contemporary liberal and feminist women due to the end of chivalry and social norms that traditionally protected women but also controlled female sexuality and constrained women as well.
There is a strong tension between freedom and sexual freedom for women and the conservative social norms that protect women in broader society, such as if a woman is assaulted in the street, she should have the protection of the males within that society.
With the breakdown of chivalry and men holding doors for women, that protection is going away, and it is the most vulnerable women who require chivalry to keep them safe.
In the dating context, there are women, particularly young women, who begin to embark upon their first genuine relationships and sexual relationships with men where they feel social pressure to have sex on the first day when, in reality, young women would like to wait a few months.
It may be unpopular to say, but it is a fact on average, women are more submissive than the average male, which means they are more likely to have sex and agree to have sex even though they don’t want sex but in their legalistic framework of consent what is happening is not illegal.
But in this kind of environment, it is morally wrong. Still, it is not legally wrong, and women can’t explain how they feel contemporary Western liberal because she is experiencing a violation due to men acting in an unchivalrous manner.
Young Woman
Four people reading this, you may be thinking, why doesn’t young woman say or do something? Young women, particularly in their late teens to mid-20s, are highly socially aware and often do things which they believe are socially expected.
When young men and young women discover themselves after high school or even university, both these young men and young women behave in stereotypical examples of masculinity and femininity.
It takes time to find out who and what they are as well as what they hope to become in the future, and it’s in this environment that contemporary Western woman doesn’t have a social framework that officer greater protection from more sexually aggressive men.
I’m not saying the fault is the woman’s, only that it doesn’t have the language to explain the violation she’s feeling.
There’s no legal framework or even social framework against men who act unchivalrous toward young women.
It’s also essential to understand how agreeable some women are.
That, on average, they are more agreeable than men.
I have spoken to women who never had an orgasm in their 20s or who have been in relationships for over five years and never experienced pleasure.
A simple solution would be to discuss it with their partners and not a total stranger, but it’s the society that tells women to have sex like a man and have orgasms continuously like a man, which makes them feel that they have a problem.
In reality, they are not the problem, but they have just been told false information or information that applies to a different kind of woman.
Sex and the City, which was a TV programme of the 1990s, is not the correct image of female sexuality and relationships.
Furthermore, the sexuality portrayed in this TV show was not, in fact, female sexuality but, in fact, gay male sexuality within a particular spear of high society New Yorkers, with the show itself created and written by two gay men (Darren Star and Michael Patrick King), reductive queer stereotypes were everywhere.
For young women growing up in the 1990s and finding out who they were, women were shown in Sex, and the City as being boss babes and being free with their sexuality was, in fact, the sexuality of gay men being imposed socially onto young women as the tule ideal for a young woman.
