Consent Quote by June Jordan

“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the…

— Agnostic Zetetic

“Rape is rape. Whether marital, non-penetrative and the rest.”

— S. A. David

“I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It…

— Steven Pinker

“I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape can add…

— Christine Stockton

“Rape is about power, not sex. It's about using force or the threat of it to take control over another person.”

— Michelle Hodkin

“greater sexual freedom expands the grey area between consensual sex and rape”

— none

“What, you don’t think I’m capable of poetry after sex?”

— Richelle Mead

“[Referring to rape] It already is bigger than everything else. It lives in front of me, behind me, next to me, inside me every…

— Daisy Whitney

“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.”

— Shira Wolosky

“Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous…

— Claudio Magris

“When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.”

— Lawrence Block

“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what…

— Charles Simic