The constant vigilance imposed by motherhood, along with the pressure to get assignments and meet deadlines, had trapped me in the world of consensual reality – the accepted symbols and meanings, the highways and malls, meetings and conferences, supermarkets and school functions.
While we in the West live in a world of consensual pre-teen sex and 13-year-old parents, virginity continues to define a woman's status in the aforesaid republics.
At the beginning, VZV was generally considered sufficiently stable to allow the use of a single sequenced virus (VZV-Dumas) as a consensual representation of the world VZV genotype, but later investigations have uncovered a gE mutant virus named VZV-MSP as the second genotype with a distinguishable accelerated cell spread phenotype [ 3].
There are hundreds of sites dedicated to non-consensual porn throughout the world, with around 30 sites "specialised" in revenge porn content used in the UK alone.
Sometimes, this bias has resulted in a too consensual, what's-the-world-coming-to tone reminiscent of the less riveting conversations you might get trapped in at a Tory conference.
Can the Arab world develop pluralistic, consensual politics, with regular rotations in power, where people can live as citizens and not feel that their tribe, sect or party has to rule or die?
The Gulenist movement, which is well known for its schools all over the world, preaches tolerance, consensual politics and interfaith dialogue.
On Wednesday, Amnesty International published its policy on sex work, calling on governments around the world to decriminalize consensual prostitution and take other steps to protect the human rights of sex workers including ending discrimination against them.
If we, as feminist women, want to create a world wherein non-consensual photos of our bodies are shunned rather than highly-valued, we need to be sure we aren't participating in systems that devalue any body, regardless of gender or race.
