Consent Laid Bare : Chanel Contos

Sex, Entitlement, and the Distortion of Desire Hardcover HEALTH & FITNESS/Sexuality The game-changing book about sex, consent, and the distortion of desire, a battle cry from a generation no longer prepared to stay silent. When activist Chanel Contos asked her followers to share their stories of sexual assault, her post went viral. Almost 7,000 people provided testimonies of surviving sexual violence--and virtually none of these incidents had been reported to authorities. Chanel soon embarked on a quest to understand why sexual assault is so rampant in our supposedly progressive society. In an era of re-entrenching inequality, Contos argues that when it comes to sex, we are all still working with an outdated social contract that privileges male pleasure at the expense of humanity. In Consent Laid Bare, Chanel lays out a framework to interrogate the inequality that reinforces violent behavior and questions whether consent is possible