{"id":257986,"date":"2017-12-25T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=257986"},"modified":"2021-03-23T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:30:05","slug":"sign-a-contract-before-sex-political-correctness-could-destroy-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sk\/sign-a-contract-before-sex-political-correctness-could-destroy-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign a contract before sex? Political correctness could destroy passion"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
The return of puritanism under the disguise of protecting women. Another attempt to destroy freedom and especially sexual freedom.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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In the West, at least, everyone has become massively aware of the extent of coercion and exploitation in sexual relations.<\/p>\n

However, we should bear in mind also the (no less significant) fact that millions of people on a daily basis flirt and play the game of seduction, with the clear aim of finding a partner for making love. The result of the modern Western culture is that both sexes are expected to play an active role in this game.<\/p>\n

When women dress provocatively to attract the male gaze or when they\u00a0\u201cobjectify\u201d\u00a0themselves to seduce them, they don\u2019t do it offering themselves as passive objects: instead they are the active agents of their own \u201cobjectification,\u201d manipulating men, playing ambiguous games, including reserving the full right to step out of the game at any moment even if, to the male gaze, this appears in contradiction with previous\u00a0\u201csignals.\u201d<\/p>\n

This freedom women enjoy bothers all kinds of fundamentalists, from Muslims who recently prohibited women touching and playing with bananas and other fruit which resembles the penis to our own ordinary male chauvinist who explodes in violence against a woman who first \u201cprovokes\u201d him and then rejects his advances.<\/p>\n

Female sexual liberation is not just a puritan withdrawal from being \u201cobjectivized\u201d (as a sexual object for men) but the right to actively play with self-objectivization, offering herself and withdrawing at will. But will it be still possible to proclaim these simple facts, or will the politically-correct pressure compel us to accompany all these games with some formal-legal proclamation (of consensuality, etc.)?<\/p>\n

New thinking<\/p>\n

A recent, politically-correct idea is the so-called \u201cConsent Conscious Kit,\u201d currently on sale in the US: a small bag with a condom, a pen, some breath mints, and a simple contract stating that both participants freely consent to a shared sexual act. The suggestion is that a couple ready to have sex either takes a photo holding in their hands the contract, or that they both date and sign it.<\/p>\n

Yet, although the \u201cConsent Conscious Kit\u201d addresses a very real problem, it does it in a way which is not only silly but directly counter-productive \u2013 and why is that?
\nThe underlying idea is how a sex act, if it to be cleansed of any suspicion of coercion, has to be declared, in advance, as a freely-made conscious decision of both participants \u2013 to put it in Lacanian terms, it has to be registered by the big Other, and inscribed into the symbolic order.<\/p>\n

As such, the \u201cConsent Conscious Kit\u201d is just an extreme expression of an attitude that grows all around the US \u2013 for example, the state of California passed a law requiring all colleges that accept state funding to adopt policies requiring their students to obtain affirmative consent \u2014 which it defines as \u201caffirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity\u201d that is \u201congoing\u201d and not given when too drunk, before engaging in sexual activity, or else risk punishment for sexual assault.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/414219-sex-political-correctness-relations\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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