The Real Reason Why People Resist Affirmative Consent Laws

(Content Warning: rape, sexual assault)

Originally published on Lefty Cartoons and cross-posted here with their permission.

Only have sex with people who’ve given enthusiastic, willful, and uninfluenced consent. Seems straightforward, right?

But there are still plenty of people who object to this definition of consensual sex.

Why? Because they value being able to have sex more than their partner’s consent. Check out this comic for a perfect example of what these conversations look like.

With Love,
The Editors at Everyday Feminism

To learn more about rape culture and consent, check out the following:

• To End Rape Culture, We Must Address These 3 Things
• 25 Everyday Examples of Rape Culture
• Only ‘Yes’ Means Yes: Why Sometimes What You Think Is Consensual Sex Is Actually Rape
• Navigating Consent: Debunking the ‘Grey Area’ Myth

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Barry Deutsch is the Portland-based author and cartoonist of Ampersand, a political comic with a generally progressive sensibility. A new Ampersand comic appears in every issue of Dollars and Sense Magazine. Barry attended Oberlin College in Ohio in the late 1980s, the School of Visual Arts in New York City in the 1990s (where he took classes from comics legend Will Eisner), and graduated from Portland State University several years ago. While at PSU, his political cartoons won the Charles M. Schulz Award. His current comics project is my comic book Hereville, a fantasy adventure comic about an 11-year-old Jewish girl. Check out his blog and follow him on Twitter @barrydeutsch.