There are moments, significant mostly in hindsight, when a stagnant discourse is rightfully disrupted. A new voice explodes onto the scene, turning conversation on its head, and we’re spun off in a new direction—positive, refreshing, energising.

On Rape, Germaine Greer’s new treatise on consent and sexual violence for Melbourne University Publishing, is unequivocally not that.

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