The Consensual Blog
Dirty Talk: Gettin Wordy & Gettin Dirty
At every last moment, consent presents us with what may be one of the most exciting opportunities: the exciting pleasure you and your partners can discover and enjoy together. Consent gives you the opportunity to find not just your desire, but the depth of your desire. And on top of that (pun intended), to create…
Feministing Consent
Intelligent. Funny. Bold. Or perhaps- Brave. Transformative. Youth-oriented. Well unfortunately I can’t find a three-word sequence that can adequately capture the success of Feminsiting. It’s no easy task; Feministing has been a cornerstone in politics, media, social change, and furthermore has unified them all together in an extraordinary way. Plus, like consent, they have been…
The Best Kept Secret In Sex
Victoria’s Secret isn’t nearly as amazing as this secret Somewhere in this infinite universe I’m indebted to someone more than I can repay. I forget who, but someone has given me an outlook that deeply shapes my life still until this very day. They said, “When you seek to pull the thread to answer one…
Lisa Wade And Consensual Narratives
Everywhere we go, we’re constantly receiving narratives around sexuality, sexual communication, and consent – in movies, through music, on television, amongst friends, privately with our partners, and just about anywhere one can think of. Unfortunately, not every one of these narratives we receive on sexuality is positive or even valuable. Oftentimes we have to endure…
Aishah Shahidah Simmons on Consent!
From her home in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Aishah Shahidah Simmons is making a substantial global impact. Through her feature-length, internationally acclaimed, award-winning documentary, along side its two-hour supplemental educational video, as well as the accompanying 100-page study guide exploring the international realities of rape, sexual assault and other forms of violence against women through the first…
