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The Dissenter · 2026-05-07 · 71 min · 11,231 words

#1250 Quill Kukla - Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Riccardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Will Kukla. They are professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at Leibniz University, Hanover. And today we're going to talk about their book, Sex Beyond Yes, Pleasure and Agency for Everyone.

So, Dr. Kukla, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Thanks, I'm happy to be here. Okay, so before we get into the actual topic of the book, I would like to start by asking you perhaps a few general questions just for the audience to get acquainted with uh what we're going to talk about here today.

So What is sexual ethics? Yeah, I mean, that's an interesting question. I'm not sure I believe in sexual ethics if that means like a set of ethical principles for how we're supposed to have sex. But when I talk about ethical sex, I just mean very simply.

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