I’ll bet there’s an app for this.
Posted on 06/04/2014 2:20:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You're in the heat of the moment, rounding third, but then you must stop and ask, Can I have your verbal or written consent to have sex with you?
Sounds quite unspontaneous. But a law co-authored by L.A. state Sen. Kevin de Leon would have state-run college campuses establish an "affirmative consent" standard for its students.
According to the language of the bill, SB 967, students who want to have sex must essentially establish that there has been "an affirmative, unambiguous, and conscious decision by each participant to engage in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity." In fact, the legislation says, ... ... It is the responsibility of the person who wants to engage in initiating the sexual activity to ensure that he or she has the consent of the other person to engage in the sexual activity. Lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent, nor does silence mean consent. No more making sexy faces and sounds for you. You've got to verbalize. Or get it on paper.
A rep for Leon said that the University of California system, as well as other noted institutions around the nation, have already adopted a similar policy. And she emphasized that this was just one aspect of a law aimed at changing the culture of California campuses when it comes to sexual assault and harassment.
The legislation, which was recently approved by the Senate, would also require state colleges and universities to establish standards for student or campus sex that already exist under California law:
People accused of assault, for example, couldn't use being drunk as an excuse. And it would be assault to have sex with someone who's asleep, unconscious or otherwise unable to give consent.
Leon's rep explained that while this is also part of current law, campuses have their own systems of student discipline, and without expressly laying down the rules for colleges as well, some suspects could fall through the cracks. And some victims could shy away.
With this law, it would all be there in black and white for each and every state campus. They would have to abide.
The bill appears to be a response to last month's release of a U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights roster of 55 schools that face inquiries over their handling of the sex-assault reports.
De Leon says:
The federal government is currently investigating 55 colleges and universities. Obviously, there is a problem. SB 967 will change the equation so the system is not stacked against survivors by establishing an affirmative consent policy to make it clear that only 'yes' means 'yes.'
Bill co-author Hannah-Beth Jackson, a state Senator from Santa Barbara, adds:
... Events in Isla Vista confirm that misogyny exists on and around our campuses, and we need to confront it. This bill makes a strong statement that California is moving from a culture of acceptance to a 'no excuses' culture. No excuses for rape. No excuses for blaming the victims of rape. No excusing for not supporting these victims. And no excuses for colleges and universities turning a blind eye to the problem of campus sexual assault and violence.
LOL!!! Just using a phrase I thought would make it past the censors.
This will just push undocumented sex further into the shadows.
How the Hell would one prove that they DIDN’T give verbal permission? This does nothing....still “he said she said.” Absurd.
Written... good luck. Verbal... also good luck: She said, “Don’t, stop!” He says she said “Don’t stop!”
Punctuation is important; this policy is stupid.
There should be an app for that!
(along with a breathalizer/sobriety tester)
I don’t have a problem with this. It protects the men as much or more than it does the women.
Besides, it could be a good thing to be fearing women or men coming out of the woodwork when considering ever being married.
This might greatly prevent unwanted pregnancies and VD.
Written consent from both parties? The football team isn’t going to like this.
Seriously, some enterprising people could make a business out of this.
Males will quickly realize this bill has a dramatic, downward effect on their chances of getting laid, hence freedoms will clearly be seen to have been curbed by politicians.
Non-sober females will quickly claim their document was signed under "under the influence", leading to even more guys facing legal expense and regret, sometimes just to spare her honor in her daddy's eyes.
Even if it makes it into law, pushed by whack-job politicians, it'll get repealed much more quickly than prohibition.
This will go nowhere fast.
HF
Leave it to feminists and fags to drag the government right into the act of coitus.
This is completely unnecessary. The whole act is already being recorded on someone’s phone. Just play back the Oh, yes, don’t stop part.
www.itwasconsensual.com?
Take out your smart phone, record video of her giving consent. Email video to yourself (or upload to youtube or send to her parents and sorority sisters, depending on your mood afterwards)
The hell it doesn't. Are women grown ups are aren't they?
And why are drunk women 0 % responsible for their behavior (allowing sex) and drunk men are 100 % responsible (initiating sex)?
The spectacular one-sidedness of this all makes me want to wretch.
So now it’s required to have permission on what goes on in one’s private bedroom. Wonder if this is also required with fags and lesbians?
Feminists used to have bumper stickers that said; ‘Government get out of my womb’ so now it’s Government get out of my bedroom.
Soon it will be required that married people have to have permission to also have sex. What a world we live in.
Don’t forget the NSA. I hear that they make reliable witnesses in a court of law...
The same asshats who shriek for the government to stay out of our bedrooms.
Diagrams and u circle the positions u agree to
Will “Take me, take me now, make me feel dirty!” count as affirmative consent, or does the guy need to actually ask?
I’ll bet there’s an app for this.
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