I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn't Want

A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it's so hard to refuse it.

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I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn't Want by Melissa Febos

A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it's so hard to refuse it.

I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn't Want - Reddit

24 votes, 15 comments. What if we taught all boys, I wondered, to appreciate this sort of rejection as a form of care?

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Women endure a lifetime of unwanted touches, Melissa Febos writes in The New York Times Magazine. "On some level, we know how often we are ...

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this weekend and online today. It's about what I call "empty consent"- when we consent to touch we don't want or feel ambivalent about, ...

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I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn't Want (Published 2021)

I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn't Want (Published 2021) ... A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why ...

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I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn't Want (Published 2021)

A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it's so hard to refuse it.

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Eight essays tell a collective story of female adolescence and womanhood, fraught with unwanted attention and abuse.

Consent That Isn't: The Violation of Women & the Demise of Men

I have always had fairly solid boundaries, especially with boys and men. Was I ever sexually assaulted? No. Did I kiss men when I had no desire ...

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This New York Times article describes how many people (mostly women) ignore their own desires when it comes to consenting to touch. Consenting to avoid...

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It's not rough or sexual, I just don't want them to touch me, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Is this a form of assault? Any unwanted ...

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