Without Consent
“If, therefore, a man becomes aware that the woman is not consenting after intercourse has commenced and he does not desist, he will be guilty of rape from the moment that he realises that she is not consenting …’ ‘I did not consent to becoming what I am,’ he wrote on his pad. ‘I am tormented and thus entitled to torment…’ Wait a minute. He did not torment. He redeemed, gave pleasure, liberated; that was what he did. But there was this infection, coming through from the outside world, pushing hi...m into this demeaning state of having to consider and reconsider the consequences all over again, becoming obsessive about the text, then reassuring himself. All he ever had to do, according to these texts, was to avoid penetration with any portion of his own body. (The tongue did not count; it was, in any event, almost entirely immune to infection; nor did a finger or an implement such as a syringe with a purely medical purpose. Such a penetration was not a rape.) He sighed with relief.MoreLess
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