This was incredibly interesting - thankyou. I had picked up on the implications but I hadn't really thought it through as hard as this. And reading over the comments, I'm getting even more to think about. (Yay, thinky fandom ;-))
Jimmy was willing and even happy the first time he welcome Castiel into his body. (And isn't that sexual language right there as well?
Re Jimmy's initial consent - yes, he may have been completely willing, but he certainly did not give informed consent. He couldn't have. To extend the sexual metaphor a little further (possibly overextending it) I'd compare it to a kind of statutory rape - much like a young person may not know all the implications of the act, even with consent*, neither did he.
*I know an underage person can't give consent at all, but I'm already hammering this metaphor into a shape it probably wasn't ever meant to be. Forgive me.
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Date: 2009-09-14 12:36 am (UTC)Jimmy was willing and even happy the first time he welcome Castiel into his body. (And isn't that sexual language right there as well?
Re Jimmy's initial consent - yes, he may have been completely willing, but he certainly did not give informed consent. He couldn't have. To extend the sexual metaphor a little further (possibly overextending it) I'd compare it to a kind of statutory rape - much like a young person may not know all the implications of the act, even with consent*, neither did he.
*I know an underage person can't give consent at all, but I'm already hammering this metaphor into a shape it probably wasn't ever meant to be. Forgive me.