Wanna Have Sex Analysis

Consent is a topic that has been gaining additional exposure throughout the United States. Some of these sources being from educational videos, personal accounts, or in books. Green, Gunsaullus, and Joannides all discuss the topic of consent in sexual encounters, which define the parameters of sexual assault and rape and encourage people to apply consent in their own lives.
Green begins the discussion about sexual consent in a video entitled Wanna Have Sex?, which thoroughly describes sexual coercion, or sexual assault and rape. Green describes sexual consent as two people agreeing to participate in a sexual encounter. Additionally, any of these two people may change their mind at any given time, surpassing their previous consent. In order to obtain consent, a person must explicitly ask if a behavior is okay and not simply assume that it is. Green also expresses the importance of asking for permission, or consent, during each sexual act – not simply one time.
One of the main points that Green drives home throughout her video is the fact that “sex is never owed to anyone” and how a person should never feel pressured into participating in any sexual acts they do not want to participate in. An assault and rape …show more content…
Instead of developing new ways to cope with the trauma of sexual assault, I think that we should reinvent how we look at offenders. As mentioned, many victims do not come forth for various reasons. Unfortunately, that clearly conveys the message to me that our society does not take these cases seriously. To me, a rape victim could be anyone – a mother, daughter, son, sister, brother, friend, etc. If the people that we love so dearly are victims of this assault, why are we not stepping up and changing culture? This is an issue in which I feel extremely passionate about preventing, considering all the consequences that Joannides’ text