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    Not sure why you say yes when you really mean no? The Consent Wizard is here to help

    LOS ANGELES — I wasn't sure what I would find when I reached out to the person behind an online educational business known as "Consent Wizardry." I celebrate our culture's (woefully recent) conversation about the importance of consent, and I am, as those who know me will attest, all about wizards. But even armed with the knowledge that its founder, Mia Schachter, offers classes exploring ...
    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Dec 27, 2022 5 minutes
    Mia Schachter runs a business teaching and training around the issue of consent and posses for a portrait with their dog Tennessee in Glendale on Dec. 1, 2022, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — I wasn't sure what I would find when I reached out to the person behind an online educational business known as "Consent Wizardry."

    I celebrate our culture's (woefully recent) conversation about the importance of consent, and I am, as those who know me will attest, all about wizards. But even armed with the knowledge that its founder, Mia Schachter, offers classes exploring consent that are, in the words of someone I trust, "awesome," I wasn't quite sure what I was getting myself into.

    A legalistic lecture? A politically correct guide to sex? A magical journey into the cavernous realms of our conscious and unconscious relationship with "yes" and "no"?

    Well, maybe not magical, at least not in the wand-waving sense, but definitely a journey. Schachter, 33, believes that , or rather our underdeveloped sense of it, lies at the bottom of many of society's ills,

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