Sex Beyond "Yes"

Quill Kukla's Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone examines how cultural scripts, consent frameworks, and material conditions shape sexual agency and pleasure.

Kukla argues that focusing narrowly on contractual consent is insufficient and proposes consensuality, ongoing communication, and social supports to enable agential and pleasurable sex.

The book addresses complex cases—drunken or high sex, power differentials, aging and dementia, kink exploration—and advocates practical tools like safe words and structural changes to support sexual agency.

Drawing on philosophy and disability studies, Kukla emphasizes partial agency and scaffolding rather than idealized autonomy.

The work aims to shift conversations from merely preventing bad sex toward actively promoting good, equitable sexual experiences.