"Consent is sexy"? No. Consent can be painfully awkward, it's something you constantly have to keep shovelling work and effort into, and sometimes a giant pain in the butt, but you know what? It's the only option. Not having consent isn’t ‘un-sexy’, it's sexual assault.

To quote perennialflight on Tumblr, "Sexualizing consent into an accessible and trendy campaign actually works against the goal of anti-violence activists. It makes consent a decision based on ‘sexiness’ - which, again, is often equated with dominant and oppressive discourses of beauty – instead of making it a basic requirement for sex. It shifts the focus of consent from something that needs to happen to a choice not unlike a sexy outfit. It treats consent like a pick-up line, in yet another faulty sexualization in an already hyper-sexualized world."

The sexualization of consent is a part of rape culture, folks. Just sayin'.

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