“I consider it a bad representation of BDSM because I don’t consider it BDSM. This man has a fetish, this man has a kink, but I don’t think it was true BDSM because there was a clear consent violation that occurred. It’s just, like, spicy assault.”— Empress Wu, rollingstone.com
“You can do anything, the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent.”— Rush Limbaugh, mediamatters.org
“I didn’t touch it. He was fired shortly after that incident, but it was unrelated to his penis.”— traceybyfire, medium.com
“Sometimes, actions speak louder than words. But, as a reminder, “no talking” does not mean 'no consent.' You should still be checking in with your partner that they are down for what you’re doing.”— Sophia Benoit, gq.com
“if i ever have a daughter, the first thing i will teach her to love will be the word “no” & i will not let her feel guilty for using it. - “no” is short for “fuck off"”— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com
“Anka: I'm from Germany, where the age of consent is 14. Archer: What is it, the Alabama of Europe?”— Mehar Sethi, Adam Reed, Sterling Archer (voice), H. Jon Benjamin, imdb.com
“If you believe that abortion should only be permissible in cases of rape or incest, don’t pretend it’s about ‘life’. If it’s ok so long as she was raped, what you’re saying is that women should be punished for consenting to sex by forcing them to give birth.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“In my 20s, in a weird way, every alcohol-doused dalliance that didn’t result in violating whatever vague definition of consensual sex I was operating on confirmed to me that what had happened to me as a teenager was not my fault.”— Minda Honey, longreads.com
“Back then, there wasn’t consent culture. There were just fast-tailed girls who let their hearts race places they didn’t belong. Girls who wanted it. I wanted it. But not yet. Not like that.”— Minda Honey, longreads.com
“One thing that will never happen on my set is, like, a rape or something. I would never allow some guy to walk into the room of some girl who’s passed out. Everyone has to be cognizant of what they’re doing— even when two people get really drunk and want to have sex, if they’re too gone, it’s like,…”— Scott Jeffress, amazon.com
“This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“To enter the transcendental state that takes the female brain into “high” orgasm, you absolutely need to feel safe; safe from “bad stress,” in the sense of knowing you are entering a trance state in the presence of someone who will protect you if necessary at the very least, and not endanger you or…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“We need to be inundating these children with the idea that consent is the way of life. Yes, you do have to ask to touch somebody.”— Tarana Burke, yesmagazine.org
“Why is it so hard for men to acknowledge that sexual liberation never actually freed women? That our sexuality remains bound still by so many other man-made knots that it will take a great deal more effort than the offer of a zipless fuck to untangle us?”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“There is this idea that the only way to turn down sex is by saying “Stop”. Men are conditioned to believe that as long as you don’t hear that ONE WORD IN THE ENTIRE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, it means that she’s just playing hard to get, and is looking for you to convince her. Which does happen, don’t get me…”— Jack Uzcategui, medium.com
“That’s it. That’s all. We need to raise the bar. “Take me as I am” does not cut it anymore, we need to be better. We need to learn how to ask the yes or no questions and we need to read the damn signs. Cause for some people it’s just bad sex, but for others it’s a night where they felt their agency…”— Jack Uzcategui, medium.com
“In Grace’s account, she told Ansari “Let’s relax for a moment, let’s chill,” when she says he went for a condom too early for her comfort. While it may not have been the “absolutely not” or “fuck no” that tweeters the world over seem to scold Grace for not emitting, in millennial parlance, “let’s re…”— Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, jezebel.com
“And I also hope men start to understand one day, that women have been oppressed since the beginning of time. We are only just starting to find our voices and demand equality. Do not abuse our conditioning to bend to your whims. Especially in the bedroom.”— Jameela Jamil, jameelajamil.co.uk