"Even with the greatest care and best intentions, things can go wrong in sexual interaction. [...] This necessarily complicates theories of consent that assume autonomous subjects with a transparent ego core and misjudge sex as a coherent, sovereign and rationally navigable experience. [This is why Maria Dahlhoff distinguishes a 'sphere of sexual consensuality' from a 'sphere of sexual assault'. [...] Boundary violations are conceptualized as part of the sphere of consent. They are called 'accidents of consent' as long as they are not intentional and those involved take responsibility for them. If, on the other hand, no consequences are drawn, the act is repeated, pressure, manipulation or coercion are used, so that only defense or acquiescence remain as reactions, according to Dalhoff, these are non-consensual acts of violence in the sphere of assault."

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