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You are not entitled to sex with anyone, but people can have preferences that are problematic.

I read the whole article, but at this sentence I reached for Cmd+W, which was done via muscle memory as my eyes were rolled so far back into my head.

Yeah, she doesn't explicitly condone rape, but you're a Very Horrible Person if she can't pressure you into sex.

Also, yes, dating effectively means sex and trying to defend a rapist by splitting hairs makes you horrible.

date != sex

Thomas Jefferson didn’t date black women but didn’t have a problem having sex with one his slaves (allegedly)

Yeah, I think I'll have regularly scheduled sex with my sla—wait, what? Thomas Jefferson isn't around in this modern world of dating, sex, and pornography. Besides, the book and the article are largely about sex.

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