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They say one should never judge a book by its cover. Avgi Saketopoulou's Sexuality beyond Consent is the rare exception. The cover art was created by Jee-Young Lee, a South Korean conceptual artist known for constructing surrealistic images staged in her single-room art studio. In this particular piece the artist sits on the ground, with her back to the viewer, cracking absurdly large eggs over boulder-size rocks. It is the perfect visual metaphor for this book. Saketopoulou lets us know from the outset that she too intends to break a few eggs as she challenges us to go beyond what we think we know about human sexuality, trauma, and race. “This is not only a book about ideas,” she writes in the book's introduction;