Exploiting, Enduring, and Resisting Ambiguous Sexual Consent in the Grey Area: Taking It

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Kristen Myers Patricia Wallace

Exploiting, Enduring, and Resisting Ambiguous Sexual Consent in the Grey Area

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Taking It

Kristen Myers, Patricia Wallace

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Rowman & Littlefield
19 February 2026

Sexual abuse & harassment; Gender studies, gender groups

For decades, feminists have been educating young people about healthy sexual interactions, promoting the benefits of affirmative consent. College students know that “Yes means yes!” Yet rates of sexual assault on college campuses remain stable. What’s going on? Despite concerted affirmative consent campaigns, coercive sexual intimacy and sexual assault persist, with some students (mostly men) still forcing sex on their partners—“taking it” from them. Facing ubiquitous sexual pressure, young people often relent to unwanted sex and “just take it.” Outsiders pass judgement on victim/survivors, demanding, “It’s just sex! Shut up and take it!” Survivors—despite their trauma—resist, “taking back” bodily empowerment.

In Exploiting, Enduring, and Resisting Ambiguous Sexual Consent in the Grey Area: Taking It, Kristen Myers and Patricia Wallace conduct an intersectional analysis of data provided by a diverse group of college students to explore these four meanings of “taking it.” They contextualize their analysis, examining the impact of sexual education in the U.S. as well as laws and policies aimed at reducing sexual assault. Using both sociological and social psychological lenses, they seek to illuminate the grey area surrounding sexual consent. The authors’ goal is to help spur changes in culture, practices, rules, and infrastructure to ultimately reduce sexual violence and increase sexual autonomy for all people.

By: Kristen Myers, Patricia Wallace
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781666948264
ISBN 10: 1666948268
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Artist Statement Prologue Chapter 1: I Didn’t Mean to Make you Uncomfortable Chapter 2: Core Concepts: The Building Blocks Chapter 3: Sexual (Mis)education Chapter 4: Regulating Sex Chapter 5: Sex in the Grey Area Chapter 6: Taking it: Exercising Power through Sexual Coercion and Assault Chapter 7: Taking It: Enduring Unwanted Sex and Normalizing Coercion Chapter 8: Taking It: Silencing Victim/Survivors Chapter 9: Taking It: Reclaiming Sexual Agency and Power Chapter 10: Illuminating/Eliminating the Grey Area Appendix Bibliography About the Authors

Kristen Myers is professor of sociology at East Carolina University. Patricia Wallace (1970 - 2025) was assistant director of research compliance, integrity, and safety at Northern Illinois University where she also taught as an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology.

Reviews for Exploiting, Enduring, and Resisting Ambiguous Sexual Consent in the Grey Area: Taking It

""This is a book for everyone who knows someone dating, whether in college or not, and definitely for anyone in college. Myers and Wallace spotlight the grey area between consent and sexual coercion. They highlight the causes and consequences of just and unjust sex. Best of all, they show that individual strategies are good but not enough and push us all to think about how to end the gender inequality that spawns the grey area that undercuts women’s sexual autonomy. May every university give a copy to its entering class."" * Barbara J. Risman, University of Illinois at Chicago *