#SoSS: Let's talk about consent

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Consent and its violation: I feel it's one of the topics you cannot avoid when talking about sex.

And I feel the voices of sex bloggers are very important here. From one side, reading about personal experiences from others you know you're not alone, and from the other, we finally get loud about an issue that I feel gets so often undertalked due to shame and stigma. At the eyes of many, it's like it's always fault of a woman if she sees her sexual consent violated: perhaps she was wearing something considered slutty, or she was simply walking alone for the street.

What? Can we no more walk alone for the street?

So I decided to make this the topic for this week's #SoSS round up: Let's go!

Here is the personal experience of Miss Jezebella, who during uni years invited a guy to a music event and felt pressured to have sex with him "out of politeness":

https://missjezebella.com/2018/01/25/that-time-i-had-sex-out-of-politeness/

And here's the post of Jake Hall, queer freelance writer and postgraduate student in Gender and Sexuality, a fellow guest author at Lustery blog as I am too ;) . This is a very personal talk about consent and its violation:

https://lustery.com/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-consent

Here instead Marie Rebelle, for her 2016 A-Z Challenge, talks about consent from a BDSM perspective:

http://rebelsnotes.com/2016/04/c-is-for-consent-more/

RomanticIsa reinforces that an enthusastic consent is mandatory and not an option:

https://isabellelauren.com/importance-enthusiastic-consent/

Here instead Girl on The Net talks about a strange "sexual consent agreement" app that requires both partners to digitally sign a contract....and her doubts about this. And panda sex, too:

https://www.girlonthenet.com/2016/09/19/consent-apps-panda-sex/

Emmeline Peaches talks about the admirable reaction of the singer Sia when someone tried to sell online her leaked nudes, and shares a personal experience from the past:

http://emmelinepeachesreviews.com/2017/11/11/article-sia-consent-and-the-time-my-partner-almost-shared-my-nudes/

Then I deeply apologize with my UK friends and readers, but my mother tongue is Italian and so I want to include an amazing post in this language too!

Here's Femme Pleasure explaining what consent is and how to recognize it: she has even create a table to visualize clearly the main points:

https://femmepleasure.com/2018/02/28/consenso/

Happy Share Our Shit Saturday - see you again next week!