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41 Akron L. Rev. 847 (2008)
Copulemus in Pace: A Mediation on Rape, Affirmative Consent to Sex, and Sexual Autonomy

handle is hein.journals/aklr41 and id is 855 raw text is: COPULEMUS IN PA CE:* A MEDITATION ON RAPE, AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT TO SEX, AND SEXUAL AUTONOMY Dan Subotnik** I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. (sic) James Joyce1 I. INTRODUCTION Here is a rich irony to chew on: At a time when women's political, social, physical, and especially economic powers are at a 10,000-year high, a movement to regulate sexual intercourse in this country is growing, fueled by the notion that contemporary women can't say no. I am not making light of unwanted sex. Evidence of the physical and psychological damage to women that results therefrom is overwhelming. Neither am I suggesting that the test for a reform agenda is whether it makes historical sense. Such tests are never more than provisional; circumstances are always changing. With hard thinking, moreover, the body politic can get wiser over time. I have refrained * Let us copulate in peace or, optatively, May we copulate in peace. (Latin). ** Dan Subotnik is a professor at Touro Law School, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, and author of Toxic DIVERSITY: RACE, GENDER, AND LAW TALK IN AMERICA (2005). The author thanks Kate Anderson, Cynthia Raskin Rocco, Roy Sturgeon, Leslie Wong, and, above all, his wife, and editor and counselor par excellence, Rose Rosengard Subotnik. He would also like to thank Malisheia Douglas, Katie Albrecht, and all the other Akron Law Review members who worked so hard on his article and the Rape, Affirmative Consent, and Sexual Autonomy Symposium. Finally, the author would like to thank Professor Jane Moriarty for organizing the symposium and his Dean, Lawrence Raful, for generous summer support. 1. JAMES JOYCE, ULYSSES 768 (1914). The passage from which the epigraph was taken has come to be known as Molly Bloom's Soliloquy.

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