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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easier solution: stop raping people.  It's really not all that difficult.  If you don't have affirmative consent, don't have sex.  It's really simple.[/quote]

X2.  A verbal yes.  Really simple and clear.[/quote]

Sometimes even a verbal yes plus other evidence of consent isn't enough.

There is one case right now from Occidental College where college students got drunk, the "victim" left the boy's room with friends, she went back to his room after texting a friend that she was going to have sex with the boy and texting the boy to ask if he had a condom, and witnesses agree that the sex was consensual. However, the girl was "saving herself" and the next day regretted having drunken sex and after discussing the incident with a faculty advisor filed a complaint against the boy.

Despite all of the evidence and the active participation of the girl, the boy was still found to have violated the university's consent policy and expelled.

See http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/04/occidental-expels-student-for-rape-under[/quote]

Yep. These incidents ultimately harm women by lowering the threshold for "rape" to a point that causes real victims to not be taken seriously.

Today, when I hear about a rape accusation, I honestly have to wonder what that means. In the past, it meant that someone was forced to have sex against their will. Today "rape" can be defined as "failure to obtain enthusiastic positive consent" which is an ludicrously broad standard that will only generate contempt and disregard for the law.[/quote]
You live in a scary place and I hope you have no position of power. Jesus. The number of people who give affirmative consent who are not impaired and then file rape charges is so ridiculously low that I don't even have words for you. [/quote]

But the number that are like the one in the article, two drunk kids ... Happens ever weekend.[/quote]

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