Rethinking consent
Is consent a method? A skill? A culture? An atmosphere? A contract? Is it sufficient? Is it working? What are consent's potentials and what are its limits or even blind spots? Is it about safety and prevention or about error-friendliness? Is it a necessary floor – but a terrible ceiling? What are the alternatives that move beyond consent for better sexual ethics? "Rethinking consent" is an update of our beloved mandatory consent introduction! 😉
Beata Absalon

Beata Absalon

Core Team and Facilitator

Beata has been facilitating workshops under the label luhmen d'arc for the last six years - on a mission to find answers to the question: "Who knows what sex could be if people were encouraged to enjoy it as play rather than as drama?" She loves to fuse different techniques and qualities, like rope bondage with laziness, and to solve problems - like how to deal with performance anxieties while role playing or finding other ways of navigating consent than asking "Is that okay?". Latter has become such a nerdy issue that she is currently dedicating her PhD in cultural studies to analyzing how queer-feminist sexpositive spaces formulate new sexual ethics that actually move beyond consent.