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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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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Enthusiasm as a standard rules out encounters where consent comes from pressure, eg your boss demands sex (and maybe they'll fire you if you refuse). What do you think of this?
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It's not required. There is already the principle that you shouldn't pressure somebody to have sex with you...
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…and the idea that self-appointed third parties would presume to judge whether the rest of us are ‘demonstrative enough,’ in any situation, is not only absurd but off-putting as well.
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Another factor (perhaps trivial compared to the ones you list but fairly widespread) is simply introversion. For some of us, quiet contentment with life’s pleasures is more than sufficient…
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Of course, people low in extraversion can easily be misread as unfriendly or uninterested, and it does help to make one’s intentions and attitudes clear, but that’s a more general issue that goes well beyond consent for sexual activity.
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