Sex Beyond 'Yes' - Pleasure and Agency for Everyone

Today's conversations about sex often focus on consent-who has given it, when one has it and how to get it. However, good, fulfilling sex requires more than securing a "yes" from a partner. It requires a variety of kinds of communication, as well as social circumstances that support sexual agency and pleasure. In Sex Beyond "Yes", Quill R. Kukla explores what sexual agency is and how it can be enabled or hindered. Kukla reimagines pleasurable, ethical sex beyond the constraints of commodification, patriarchal and heterocentric social scripts, ableism, and puritanical and stigmatising attitudes toward sex.

This book addresses the complexities of desire and the importance of creating an environment that prioritises respect, communication and joy. Centring pleasure and agency, it encourages conversations and social changes that can make good sex accessible to all.

About the author

Quill R Kukla lives in Washington, DC, and Berlin. They are Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. They are also an amateur competitive boxer and powerlifter, the parent of a young adult, and the devoted caretaker of a corgi and two cats. This is their fourth book.

Product details

• Authors: Quill R Kukla, Quill R. Kukla
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2025
• EAN: 9781324064923
• ISBN: 978-1-324-06492-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: A Norton Short
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social issues & processes, Ethics and moral philosophy, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality