PHOTO: JUSTIN STEPHENS/AUGUST Last week, an anonymous account of a date with Aziz Ansari made headlines, divided opinion, and left his career hanging in the balance. Writer Jane Mulkerrins gives her provo cative take…
EVER WOKEN UP in an unfamiliar bed, jittery with revulsion and self-loathing, wishing you could delete the previous 12 hours? Me too. Ever been back at a guy’s place, dress half off, but rapidly going off the whole idea, and then… well, just gritted your teeth and gone through with it anyway? Yeah, also me too. We’ve (mostly) all been there. And there are some gnarly, negative emotions that often follow a night that went awry: regret, anger, humiliation, shame. But characterising a consensual act (albeit a joyless, unsatisfying one) as abuse or assault, is not…
