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John wrote this in 2026 on LessWrong. "Women typically want to not have consent to what's happening."
This post misquotes the LessWrong article. John Wentworth’s January 2, 2026 post says women “want to not have to consent,” not “want to not have consent.”
Full reasoning
The attribution to a 2026 LessWrong post is broadly pointing at a real article by johnswentworth published on January 2, 2026, but the quoted sentence is not what the post says.
The actual line in the LessWrong post is:
"women typically want to not have to consent to what's happening."
That extra "to" is present in the source text. The X post drops it and therefore presents a quotation that does not match the wording of the LessWrong post it is attributing to John.
I verified this both from the LessWrong page itself and from a normalized fetch of that page, which shows the article title, author (johnswentworth), publication date (2nd Jan 2026), and the exact sentence as published.
2 sources
- The Weirdness of Dating/Mating: Deep Nonconsent Preference — LessWrong
by johnswentworth ... 2nd Jan 2026 ... "I claim that most women have a \"deep\" preference for nonconsent in dating/mating. It's not just a kink; from the first approach to a date to sex, women typically want to not have to consent to what's happening."
- The Weirdness of Dating/Mating: Deep Nonconsent Preference - LessWrong
The Weirdness of Dating/Mating: Deep Nonconsent Preference by johnswentworth 2nd Jan 2026 ... It's not just a kink; from the first approach to a date to sex, women typically want to not have to consent to what's happening.