Stop. Look at your phone. When was the last time it notified you about anything? How many times a day does it send you a notification? Did you intend to give your location to your service provider each time you heard a beep or felt a vibration? Well, regardless of whether you voluntarily offered up that information, they have it, and until modern precedent matches today’s…

This essay responds to “The Sex Bureaucracy,” in which Jacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk identify a “bureaucratic turn in sex regulation”””one that has expanded the reach of sexual regulation to include “nonviolent, non-harassing, voluntary sexual conduct” (or in their words, “ordinary sex”). In their view, the Department of Education’s campaign against sexual assault on…