the feminist librarian reads

People are still rather confused on how consent works and what it looks like. They could understand lack of consent in a sober on impaired situation, but not in an impaired on impaired situation, in which nobody involved has the capacity to consent to sexual activity. After years of advocacy work teaching people that people who are under the influence do not have the capacity to consent, we’ve seen people come to the understanding that if you’re sober and you “have sex with” someone who is not, what you’ve actually done is rape that person. Two negatives in this case doesn’t equal a positive, but people don’t understand that, which is troubling.