Re-Writing Rape (II) - What Is Consent? - A Tea Analogy

Last week, we defined rape as a *crime crystalised in the Penal Code. There is a misconception that rape is sex gone wrong, or bad sex, or a misunderstanding in sexual interaction. But rape differs tremendously, from sex.

Sex in this context, read sexual intercourse, is sexual contact between individuals. Often when speaking of sex, it entails penetration. However, in many lived realities, it actually doesnt. The same way, sometimes it culminates in an orgasm and other times, it doesnt.

Rape, on the other hand, is sexualised violence. It is a human rights and public health problem. It is an act committed on a person without that person’s consent. In Setswana, Ke go dirisa motho yo mongwe botlhaswa, ntleng ga tumalano. For there to have been said to be rape, there must be, in the converse, the absence of consent. This then begs the question, what is this consent that we speak of.

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