Whenever consent is being discussed in the discourse of gender issues, it’s always female consent that is being emphasized while simultaneously male consent is completely put aside. This can be seen from the existing laws, government policies, societal attitude, political stances, popular culture I.e. every sphere of our life. We can see that whenever a man exercises his free choice, he receives hostilities ranging from ridicule to punishments. But why this is the case? Why a man's free choice is vilified while for woman it is celebrated? Why men are demonized for breaking free of patriarchal norms? To understand this a closer look on biology and evolution of human society. Human society always have valued female lives higher than male lives due to reproduction. Men were assigned difficult tasks which were life risking and those men who made it were rewarded with mating opportunity with best of females. When patriarchy and private property emerged it retained the concept of old days and added their own system to it. Now men with private property got the best of women. So it can be seen that throughout history, women were presented as reward for men to gain. So in a nutshell, men have to prove their worth to get a chance to mate was the de-facto norm of gender relations. But after successive waves of industrial revolutions, world changed forever. Patriarchy has become obsolete. So the ways of the oldare not applicable anymore. But the old norms still remain ingrained. The conditioning of the old eras states that men have the urge for mating, not women and for that it is default scenario that getting a women is the ultimate moksha of a male life. All other things have to revolve around this particular aspect of life. Now, sexual urge is natural for human like hunger, thirst. But that isn’t the sole aspect of life in advanced civilized society. Only in primitive state, human life revolves around food, sex. The more we advance, there are many things in life in addition to that. Individuality, intrinsic motivations play more role in life. In pre-modern society, marriage and reproduction was seen as crucial part of human life. But that’s not the case for today. Marriage becomes obsolete for those without private property ownership. Plus contemporary marriage has become a dangerous one-sided contract where men has duty without rights, reaps no benefit from it and can have their life destroyed at any moment as the entire legal system is biased. After sexual revolution, old romantic relationships are obsolete too. So it can be conferred that men have no need to chase female companionship at all. So in case of consent, both male and female consent are valuable. But it can be easily seen that the male consent isunrecognized still. This is a grave problem.
As male consent is unrecognized, so sexual crimes against men are unrecognized.So are all the abuses, violence a man faces. While the exact opposite standard apply to women. When the term ‘rape’ comes to mind it is automatically assumed that the perpetrator is male and the victim is female but never the opposite. Similar bias exists in case of domestic violence, sexual assault and all other aspects. Male victims are mocked, humiliated for speaking up about the injustice they face.
Feminism is patriarchy in decay I.e. patriarchial duties for men and rights for women while curbing the opposite. So feminism retained patriarchy’s dogma that men cannot be victims while female cannot be perpetrators and female life is priceless while male lives are disposable. This why feminists always oppose making laws gender-neutral, giving justice to male victims and punishing female perpetrators. This very notion goes against the sense of justice and stands against the values of modern civilization where individual human rights and dignity are sacred.
Feminists, traditionalists, leftists and all other reactionary ideas stands against very idea of male consent because their foundation will shake if male consent is recognized.
The decadent patriarchy that is in practice will fall like a house of cards if men starts to value themselves, become aware of their human rights and dignity, protect their honor and modesty, establish individual liberty for themselves and live life according to their own voluntary choice. That’s why the established order is hell bent on keeping the status quo and oppose male emancipation.
Lastly one crucial thing to remember that any form of involuntary labor is exploitation. So men being forced into patriarchial duties without anything in return is exploitation. Through establishment of individual male choice, this exploitation must be done sway with. ‘His life, his body, his choice’ must be the clarion call of male emancipation.

Author: Purandhar Khilji