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100			_aFaustino, Maria J. _912550
245			_aThe failed promise of consent in women's experiences of coercive and unwanted anal sex with men _cMaria Joāo Faustino and Nicola Gavey
260			_bSage, _c2024
500			_aFeminism & Psychology, 2024, First published online, 31 March 2024
520			_aIn this article, we critically interrogate the concept of consent in relation to women's experiences of coerced and unwanted heterosexual anal sex. Among the 18 women we interviewed (all living in New Zealand), some clearly labelled their experiences of unwanted anal sex with men as nonconsensual. Many others, however, suggested that they had, in some way, consented. We identified two main discursive patterns in the ways that women discussed consent in these contexts: one that equated it with resignation, mostly associated with experiences of verbal pressure, and another that reduced consent to a lack of resistance to unwanted and unexpected anal penetration. Through these women's accounts, it was clear that consent and coercion are not mutually exclusive. Overall, consent in these cases was scripted within a gendered dynamic that was premised on men's sexual entitlement and women's traditional roles as sexual caretakers and gatekeepers. We argue that women's accounts and reflections on consent in this context illuminate structural fragilities in the very concept of sexual consent as a marker of ethical sex. Consent was substantively distinct from sexual enthusiasm and mutuality. We conclude that it fails in its promise to protect women against sex that is coercive and hurtful. (Authors' abstract). Record #8619
650			_aANAL SEX _912828
650			_aCONSENT _94690
650			_aSEXUAL ETHICS _912829
650		4	_aSEXUAL VIOLENCE _9531
650			_aWOMEN _9645
651		4	_aNEW ZEALAND _92588
700			_aGavey, Nicola _91205
773	0		_tFeminism & Psychology, 2024, First published online, 31 March 2024
830			_aFeminism & Psychology _94691
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/09593535241234429 _zDOI: 10.1177/09593535241234429 (Open access)
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE _hnews127
999			_c8619 _d8619