{"id":70300,"date":"2019-03-21T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70300"},"modified":"2019-03-20T07:28:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:28:20","slug":"affirmative-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70300","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Minnesota’s New Puritans trying to make college\u00a0sex \u201csafe\u201d might destroy it, instead<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0

The proposed legislation says consent to a sexual act must be given by words or actions that create mutually understandable, unambiguous permission regarding willingness to engage in, and the conditions of, sexual activity.\u00a0\u00a0 It goes on to say that consent may be withdrawn at any time.\u00a0\u00a0

Does \u201cat any time\u201d mean \u201cafter the fact?\u201d\u00a0 Can a person regret having agreed to have sex and retroactively withdraw consent?\u00a0 Do second-thoughts convert consensual activity into sexual assault?\u00a0

If a person is accused of engaging in sexual activity without obtaining express consent, at trial, how does the accused prove s\/he did obtain explicit consent?\u00a0 He-said-she-said testimony?\u00a0 A witness who watched the sex act?\u00a0 Sex video?\u00a0 Who curates the library of sex videos?\u00a0

It would be much easier to enforce if they\u2019d cut to the chase and say: \u201cStudents shall not engage in sexual activity while enrolled in college.\u201d
Joe Doakes

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My alma mater – at least while I was in school (I have no idea today) went through at least the formality of saying “nobody of the opposite sex in your room after 11PM – 1AM on weekends”. Everyone knew the rules were getting flouted – but the institution had the wisdom to imply “look, all you late-adolescents – we know you’re going to do it, because for all the academic jabbering you are all still governed by hormones. But we know you’re neither thinking clearly, nor ready for the consequences, and we’re at least going to nag you about it long enough that the consequences don’t happen on our watch”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m pretty sure it was a better idea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minnesota’s New Puritans trying to make college\u00a0sex \u201csafe\u201d might destroy it, instead.\u00a0\u00a0 The proposed legislation says consent to a sexual act must be given by words or actions that create mutually understandable, unambiguous permission regarding willingness to engage in, and the conditions of, sexual activity.\u00a0\u00a0 It goes on to say that consent may be withdrawn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70301,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70300\/revisions\/70301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}