Violated: Sexual Consent and Assault in the Twenty-First Century

Statistically speaking, you or someone you know has experienced a sexual violation. There’s also a high chance that you or someone you know caused one. Perhaps these incidents had a clear perpetrator and victim. Or maybe you’ve encountered one of the more complicated situations where it’s not quite so obvious that one person intentionally hurt another. Violated focuses on that messy place of unintentional, thoughtless, or perhaps even reckless consent violations. It challenges us to rethink the way gender and dating norms, intentionality, and intoxication have come to frame our social understanding of sexual consent and discusses what you, your organizations, and your government can do to help reduce the scope of sexual violation. But more than anything, this book argues that we need to develop more realistic models of ＂good consent＂ for the world we actually live in.

Julie L. Fennell (she/her) is an associate professor of sociology at Gallaudet University with specializations in gender and sexuality. Her research has been published in Sexualities, Sociological Forum, Contraception, Gender & Society, and more. She remains a well-established figure as a kinky performer, blogger, and presenter, and she continues to educate about BDSM in many parts of the US and Canada.

J. Remy Green (they/them) holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. They are a law firm partner and practicing attorney specializing in issues relating to consent, Me Too, and the First Amendment, including a sub-specialty in defending rape survivors against defamation claims made by their rapists. They have published academic articles in top legal journals on topics ranging from ＂revenge porn＂ and copyright to the First Amendment and online incitement of violence. Green has been a guest lecturer and adjunct professor with Boston University School of Law, NYU, and various schools within the City University of New York system, where they teach courses that cover gender and the law, law and technology, as well as civil and constitutional rights.