Affirmative Consent

Feminist Literature, 1989

Cunning way to sabotage the date of a woman far more attractive than yourself.

Feminist writer Lois Pineau’s 1989 article “Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis” in Law and Philosophy is generally regarded as the source of the idea “no means no” or “yes means yes” is not enough. A decade later, it was followed by “Consent for Sexual Behavior in a College Student Population” (1998, “sexologist” David Hall, Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality) and the hilariously-bad ‘”By the Semi-mystical Appearance of a Condom”: How Young Women and Men Communicate Sexual Consent in Heterosexual Situations’ in 1999 by nursing professor Susan Hickman and psychologist Charlene Muehlenhard in The Journal of Sex Research.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=affirmative+consent
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=affirmative+consent
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00160012
• http://www.ejhs.org/volume1/consent1.htm
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499909551996