Age of Consent Podcast Series
News Article: New podcast series explores consent in legal history and in courtrooms today
- Published 9 December 2021.Episode 4: Fixing Consent
14:25, Fri 21 Jan 2022
The way we legislate and think about consensual sex is flawed. How can we improve it? Dr Mithu Sanyal, discusses the importance of understanding where our biased views of consent come from, in order to be able to assess whether they actually chime with our beliefs. Jane Gilmore, journalist and activist describes her campaign to “fix” the way journalists report on rape, and stop perpetuating rape myths. Finally Dr Victoria Brooks poses the question: how can we create a new framework to think about the ethics of sex?
(MP3 format, 69 MB)