• teslasaur@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Well, using a word usually mean that you have a cursory knowledge of its meaning. But they didn’t exactly elaborate on what they meant by saying that sex doesn’t implcitly mean consent.

    The only way i could justify that position, is of they meant sex(*noun), and the description of organisms that create gametes of different size and shapes.

    Sexual relations, coitus, boinking or one of the many different versions of describing the various acts of genital relationships between humans, DOES imply consent. Otherwise it is sexual misconduct or rape.

    But i recon both of you already know this.

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      But they didn’t exactly elaborate on what they meant by saying that sex doesn’t implcitly mean consent.

      I was pretty straightforward about it, I think. Rape is a ‘subcategory’ of sex.

      There’s a difference between the disingenuous act of describing a nonconsensual sex act while deliberately not mentioning the ‘nonconsent’, and claiming that the word “sex” itself carries with it the ‘trait’ of consent.

      If consent was part of the definition of sex, then when two people get blackout drunk (which legally makes them both unable to render informed consent) and fuck each other at a party or something, we’d consider no sex to have happened, which would be an obviously ridiculous conclusion that no one reaches. It’s obvious consent is not an intrinsic attribute of “sex”.