In episode 85 of Overthink, Ellie and David work through some of universities’ attempts at a sexual consent policy, discuss complex legal cases, and “gray rape.” They probe the limits of our idea of consent with cases of pain and grisly violence. They explore Ellie’s own proposal for rethinking our idea of consent. Is consent contractual? Performative? Magic? And, should it really be the central tenet of our sexual ethics?

Orgasm. Fireworks, a gushing waterfall, little death. In episode 77 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss how philosophy, phenomenology, evolutionary biology, and psychoanalysis interpret the experience of orgasm. They tackle what the orgasm gap says about the state of gender and sex in our society.

Professors Ellie and David discuss the ethics and gender politics of hookup culture on college campuses and beyond.