YES! COMING FULL CIRCLE If millennials are amplifying the wounds of bad sex and saying no
ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES, A CHARGED GEN Z MOVEMENT IS ADVOCATING FOR MORE EQUITABLE DYNAMICS IN THE BEDROOM, STARTING WITH A REDEFINITION OF CONSENT FROM “NO MEANS NO” TO “YES—VERBALLY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY AND CONTINUOUSLY REAFFIRMED— MEANS YES.”
A shift in our cultural mindset is in order. By demanding new clarities around sex and normalizing open and frank conversations between sex partners, gen Z is doing more to give women a say in the terms of casual sex than any previous generation. In doing so, might just be the first to carry out the work of the original sexual revolution, which for five decades
to it in their lives, there is evidence
has gone injuriously unfinished.
that the next generation is taking
That may sound unromantic or impractical
measures to rectify it. On college
to older folks accustomed to a certain
campuses, a charged gen Z movement
coyness and reticence around casual sex.
is advocating for more equitable
But our uncommunicative tendencies
dynamics in the bedroom, starting
aren’t doing us any favors. If there is
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with a redefinition of consent from
one thing to be learned by circulating
Caitlin Hartney
“no means no” to “yes—verbally
accounts of bad sex, it’s that we have
and enthusiastically and continuously
no idea how to talk to each other about
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reaffirmed—means yes.”
what it is we want and are willing to give.
Casey Kelly BUFFALO DESIGN STUDIO | PROF, DAEMEN COLLEGE
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