Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (Sexual Cultures)

Sexuality Beyond Consent is a groundbreaking book that challenges our understanding of trauma, consent, and sexuality.

Through a series of clinical and cultural case studies, the author explores how trauma can become an unexpected site of flourishing, and how risking experience can solicit the future.

The book takes up works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter to chart how trauma and sexuality join forces to surge through the aesthetic domain.

With a unique blend of psychoanalytic theory, queer of color critique, performance studies, and philosophy, Sexuality Beyond Consent proposes that enduring the strange in ourselves can open us up to encounters with opacity.

The book concludes by theorizing currents of sadism that, when pursued ethically, can animate unique forms of interpersonal and social care.

Don't miss out on this thought-provoking and insightful exploration of sexuality, trauma, and the human experience.