Okay, so about this stupid consent must be enthusiastic suggestion. Here's a partial list of things that might make this problematic (but which do not rule out people consenting to a sexual encounter):
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13. Fear of pregnancy. 14. Fear of being caught or heard (e.g., parents of young children). 15. Stress, tiredness, illness.
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All of these things might make enthusiastic consent problematic. None of them rule out the possibility of informed consent. It doesn't matter how "woke", or how American, you are - you don't get to tell people they have to be enthusiastic about the things to which they consent.
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Of course, I'm entirely aware that enthusiasm is a good signal of consent - though actually not an infallible signal - but the problem arises because of the elision of signal and necessary condition.
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Interesting, the notion of enthusiastic consent seems to reflect certain attitudes towards sex - those associated with sex positivity, say. Making enthusiastic consent a requirement could then be seen as treating those attitudes as not just normative but morally normative.
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Yes, & one interesting thing here is that "sex positivity" also tends to be associated with the "sex work is work" idea. So the question arises - do sex workers have to be enthusiastic about their sexual encounters for them to be consenting?
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