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When Is "Uncomfortable Sex" Just Rape?

A series of questions and no answers.

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Katherine Dee
Feb 03, 2021
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In 2014, alt lit—a literary scene that, arguably, had already been dead for at least a year—was revitalized and then killed again by a series of sexual misconduct allegations. 

There was something different about these accusations though: they weren’t recognizably rape, but they didn’t exactly read as kosher, either. They existed in a perilous gray area,…

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