consenting* and protesting as a sense of propriety when women weren’t allowed to be sexual, that should today correctly be read as v rapey
*to the extent that word is even applicable a hundred years ago
people kinda bluescreen when you explain the concept of consent didn’t meaningfully exist in the past, ‘because of the implication’
but people were still enthusiastically fucking without any reservations. don’t really know what else to refer to it as
