124 Quotes About Consent

All these women were, however, careful to distinguish *sexual commerce*, in which women view sex work as skilled labor and their chosen occupation, from *sex trafficking*, described by governments, NGOs, and activists as forced sexual labor. Key to this distinction is a labor process that depends heavily on workers' consent and the establishment of trust in relation to both the clients and the madams/bar owners who regulate the workers' labor.

The way you look at me, do you mean it?

If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!

Learn when you’re given consent and when you’re given blessing. There is a major difference between saying yes and agreeing to it.

I dont know why it bothered me, the way he said it, like I had to want sex. There were lots of people who didn’t.

Don't ask me, we never did anything other than kissing.”“Really?”“Yeah,’ I swallow the frog trying to hop its way out of my esophagus.“Landon wanted to, but I wasn’t ready.”“Oh.”“Sorry I can’t help.”“No!” He smiled and his shoulders unclenching. That actually helps a lot… I was just worried I guess.”“Why.”.”I don’t know. It just seemed like we were supposed to want it.

The Christian sex ethic was revolutionary. It… requires sex to always be super-consensual—only for people ready to give their whole lives to each other.

Whatever that detail is, it cannot just be assumed that when you touched her vagina and it was wet, it meant she wanted to have sex.Consent does not work that way.

There's this obsession with a man's erection and ejaculation, in that sex starts with his erection and ends with ejaculation.There is not much else in-between that is affirming for women or for the person receiving that penis.