
Sex Beyond "Yes"
pleasure and agency for everyone
$53.02
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2025
Summary
Beyond Consent: Reimagining Sex, Pleasure, and Intimacy
Every discussion of sexual ethics revolves around consent, but is this notion enough to help us understand good sex? How does the dominance of consent help or prevent us from negotiating the complexities of intimacy and pleasure?
Georgetown professor Quill R Kukla argues that the idea that consent is the gatekeeper between the realms of good and bad sex does not give us the tools we need to navigate pleasure an…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9781324064923 |
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ISBN-10: | 1324064927 |
Series: | A Norton Short |
Author: | Quill R. Kukla |
Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
Format: | Hardcover |
Number of Pages: | 176 |
Release Date: | 2 September 2025 |
Weight: | 314g |
Dimensions: | 218mm x 147mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
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)”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 andTimely, 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
About The Author
Quill R. Kukla
Quill R Kukla lives in Washington, DC, and Berlin. They are 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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