Sophie Hindes

PhD Candidate, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

Consent apps are a bad idea – here’s why

Using an app to verify sexual consent only risks protecting perpetrators and reduces sex to a transaction. What is needed is social change

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