We urgently need to talk about the grey areas of bad sexual encounters

Get the Full Story"I'm sorry but I just don't buy it," a woman in her late twenties said to me. "I think that if a woman says "yes" at the outset then she can't claim any harm has occurred."

Sitting at a table full of strangers at a dinner party, I realised our conversation had ventured into uncomfortable territory. We were discussing the grey areas of bad sexual experiences; a topic that's opened up in the wake of the Aziz Ansari sexual misconduct allegations.

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When we talk about "grey areas," we're talking about negative sexual experiences that result in women feeling harmed. As HuffPost's Emma Gray put it, this can be defined as "sex that feels violating even when it's not criminal." These experiences might not technically fall under a legal definition of sexual assault. We use the term "grey area" because we do not currently have the terminology to describe these experiences. Read more...More about Uk, Social Good, Sexual Assault, Sex And Relationships, and Aziz Ansari

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