The Office of Religious Life, in collaboration with the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and University Life is hosting journalist and author Christine Emba for her talk Rethinking Sex: Better than Consent on Monday October 3rd.
Consent is the baseline for legal sex. But if "legal" is all we're asking for, the bar is on the floor. Has the current sexual culture lowered our standards? How can we make our encounters not just consensual, but actually good?
Christine Emba is an Opinion columnist at The Washington Post focusing on ideas and society. Before joining the Post in 2015, Christine was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at the New Criterion and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit. She grew up in Virginia and holds an A.B. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, published by Penguin Random House in Spring 2022, is her first book.
This event will fulfill the requirement for the Sexual Respect Initiative component of the Community Citizenship Initiative under University Life.