Australian New South Wales legal consent registration
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retold in 3 talks
Žižek mentions that New South Wales enacted a law requiring partners to somehow register consent before sex. He uses this as an example of PC legislation that ignores the constitutive ambiguity and fantasy-structure of sexuality.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“you are legally obliged to somehow register your content [consent]”
“they passed a legal regulation that somehow the consent of both partners if they want to make love should be registered by signing a paper, taking a short video clip.”
“In New South Wales they have a law now that before any sexual act, there has to be some kind of written or recorded consent.”
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Its cast and sources
populated by
A.O. Scott1Rose McGowan1Mike Crumplar1M.L. Clark1Kirsten E Stewart1Bong Joon-ho1Jared Kushner1Harold Wilson1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
Žižek mentions that New South Wales enacted a law requiring partners to somehow register consent before sex. He uses this as an example of PC legislation that ignores the constitutive ambiguity and fantasy-structure of sexuality., illustrating sexuality / constitutive ambiguity,political correctness,consent
An (un-enacted) Australian proposal requiring partners to record a short video clip consenting to sex before intercourse, used to illustrate the absurdity of legalistic consent regulation., illustrating masochist contract,limits of consent regulation,bureaucratization of sex
In New South Wales there is a law requiring written or recorded consent before sexual acts, used by Žižek's incel correspondent Mike Crumplar to illustrate the bureaucratic absurdity of consent discourse., illustrating consent discourse,politically correct sexuality,legalism versus desire