Once I read on the internet that a person said that all anal sex with women was actually always, 100% of the time actually rape because no woman would ever actually consent to anal sex. Is this true? I’ve heard many, many people say this before, and I’m starting to wonder. I mean, I’ve never once had anal sex with a woman, so perhaps it is true?
I think I read it on the comments section of a movie review website where the ending shows a woman asking a hero for anal sex, and the people were then saying the jeep was a rapist.
Of a course a woman can consent to anal sex. Many, many women partake. I don’t know where you’re hearing this, but people saying things like “all hetero anal sex is rape” or “no woman would ever consent to anal sex” are morons.
Generally speaking, you can consent to most things short of serious injury or death. You also can consent to thing which has a chance of serious injury or death.
At common law, you could not consent to sodomy; which had many definitions, but anal sex was one of them. While in practice anal sex between two consenting adults was unlikely to be prosecuted, a woman could get separation order from her husband if she proved he wanted/forced her to have such “unnatural intercourse”, which typically was not the case with regular P in V sex (for that she had to show special aggravating circumstances, such as during pregnancy, delibating illness or in public).
Not all jurisdictions have moved on from the common law system in their current statute books, though one again prosecution is unlikely.
Bolding mine. This is one of the most misogynist things I have ever heard. It’s actually pretty in-line with alt-right evo-psych types who claim women don’t really know what they want. The circle is complete.
To the OP, you know damned well what the answer to this question is.
I can’t deal with these comments. That is some seriously batty shit, Velocity. I knew Friedan (I think? I’m a terrible feminist wrt knowing my stuff) pushed this theory with early feminism, but I had no idea there were people alive today who bought into it.
I’d just like you to know, that as a radfem, I have thought that all PIV is rape for longer than you have. I’m way more rad than you.
Also, I’m so rad I think men having penises is of itself rape and actually to be blunt and - you may not be ready for this concept because you aren’t as rad as me, but - men are rape. The concept of men is rape and even men’s decision to exist is a premeditated act of extreme violence on women.
Right on sister. Men, as the controlling hegemony, have forced women to become their own rapists by leaving women with no choice but to exist, thereby becoming unwilling accomplices in their own rape.
