Sex Beyond "Yes"

Bold, incisive, and brilliant, Quill R Kukla’s Sex Beyond ‘Yes’ is a provocative exploration of how to negotiate sex that is pleasurable, free, and ethically sound. A must-read for any feminist.–Kate Manne, author of Down Girl and Unshrinking
Part manual, part manifesto, Sex Beyond “Yes” has plenty of can-do ideas about how we might turn consensual sex into “good sex”–how we might learn not only to accept and reject but also to invite, warn, ask, and order… lucid and straightforward; in a better world, it would be taught in high schools.–S. C. Cornell “The New Yorker”
Thoughtful and refreshing… Sex Beyond “Yes” advances a vision of sex that is mutually fulfilling and respectful; more radically, it offers an affable defense of a good that our puritanical culture threatens to extinguish at every turn: pleasure, in all its glorious and indomitable disorder.–Becca Rothfeld “Washington Post”
Kukla (City Living), a philosophy professor at Georgetown University, provides an astute reassessment of what empowered sex means in an imperfect world… Well-reasoned and complex, it’s a vital addition to an important cultural conversation.– “Kirkus (starred review)”
Timely, well-informed, wise, and highly readable, Sex Beyond ‘Yes’ draws upon an exceptionally deep and broad understanding, both of the theoretical background and of the diverse and richly nuanced realities of human experience. A rare gem.–Carrie Jenkins, author of What Love Is and What It Could Be

Quill R. Kukla lives in Washington, DC, and Berlin. They are a professor of philosophy and disability studies at Georgetown University, and the editor in chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. They are also an amateur competitive boxer and powerlifter, the parent of a young adult, and the devoted caretaker of a corgi and two cats. This is their fourth book.

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