I’ve seen the idea come up a lot in general SF/F fandom, but there’s a lot of crossover between the communities. Of course you can always generalize from uplifts to artificially created beings, or even aliens with a different mental model than humans. I recall an interesting, and somewhat raucous discussion over the idea of decerebrated clones as sexual partners. No one was actually advocating this, of course, but trying to establish rather or not consent would be an issue was … well, difficult. (One noted issue: this situation differs considerably from a person that is brain dead due to injury, as they were a fully sapient being at an earlier point, but the clones would never have even developed into such. Essentially, they’re not even as sapient as an ordinary animal.)
For someone like me where explicit consent is a very important factor in my relationships, it was both a fascinating discussion and something of a personal squick at the same time. I couldn’t completely reject the idea within my personal framework, but I couldn’t condone it either.
