Call for Assistance/Readers [Possible TW]

Many of you are probably familiar with the claim that all sex is rape. It has been attributed to Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, and other second-wavers. It is contentious whether their writing commits them to this claim, though.

In any case, I am working on a paper that I intend to one day submit for publication that contains an argument for the claim. Since the paper is not done, I cannot offer my argument here (or in r/SRSDiscussion). Basically, the point is that in a society like ours, people are subject to coercive pressures and so their consent is invalid.

So, first, would anybody read the paper when it is done and offer comments on it? I expect to have a first draft in about a month, but on the other hand I'm lazy.

Second, are there any bad consequences of this claim's being true or of people coming to believe that it is true? Something that would imply that, no matter what the argument is, the conclusion can't be true or we shouldn't believe that it's true.

e: Thanks to those of you who volunteered! I will send a link to googledoc in a PM to you upon completion. FYI the paper's intended audience is philosophers.

Posted Jun 23, 2012, 11:32 PM UTC · edited

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