Teaching consent is ongoing, but it starts when children are very young. It involves both teaching children to pay attention to and respect others' consent (or lack thereof) and teaching children that they should expect their own bodies and their own space to be respected---even by their parents and other relatives. And if children of two or four can be expected to read the nonverbal cues and expressions of children not yet old enough to talk in order to assess whether there is consent, what excuse do full grown adults have?
Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave towards them and how they will respond when someone passes those limits.[1] They are built out of a mix of conclusions, beliefs, opinions, attitudes, past experiences and social learning.[2][3] This concept or life skill has been widely referenced in self-help books and used in the counseling profession since the mid-1980s.[4]
Mix together a bit of freely accessible facial recognition software and a free live stream of the public space, and what do you get? A powerful stalker tool.
So you want to keep your lover or your employee close. Bound to you,
even. You have a few options. You could be the best lover they've ever
had, kind, charming, thoughtful, competent, witty, and a tiger in bed.
You could be the best workplace they've ever had, with challenging work,
rewards for talent, initiative, and professional development, an
excellent work/life balance, and good pay. But both of those options
demand a lot from you. Besides, your lover (or employee) will stay only
as long as she wants to under those systems, and you want to keep her
even when she doesn't want to stay. How do you pin her to your side,
irrevocably, permanently, and perfectly legally?
You create a sick system. […]