California adopts historic 'yes means yes' rule on sexual consent

The Guardian ^ | 09/29/2014

[BitWielder1]

Does it mean they can't change their mind after the fact?

[DouglasKC]

The legislation says silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent. Under the bill, someone who is drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep cannot grant consent.

Liberals are very confused. Instead of just going with what worked for so long...don't have sex before marriage....they have to legislate that it's criminal to have sex before marriage unless you practically have a lawyer and a recording of "consent" with the screwing couple in the room.

[SkyDancer]

It should be No means No.

[bert]

candy’s dandy

but......

liquor’s quicker

[SeekAndFind]

RE: It should be No means No.

Been there, done that.

[Calvin Locke]

Does it apply to Bill Clinton and the Kennedys?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Don’t see how this bill accomplishes anything.

We are saying that consent can be given by a nod of the head or moving closer physically to the person. Doesn’t this just set up more he said/she said situations? He will say she moved closer to him so he interprets as consent. She will say she was trying to get off the bed. He will say she nodded her head. She will say she didn’t nod her head to affirm consent.

[newnhdad]

back when I was in college, you didn’t have to roll with legal counsel when you wanted a good time.. The bars and keggers will be too crowded with all the suits.

[Jonty30]

If you’re young and male, stay out of these post-secondary slander institutions.

[The Working Man]

Liberals are very confused. Instead of just going with what worked for so long...don’t have sex before marriage....they have to legislate that it’s criminal to have sex before marriage unless you practically have a lawyer and a recording of “consent” with the screwing couple in the room.

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I was just thinking that here is a great business opportunity for the Glut of lawyers being produced by the nation’s ‘law schools’.

Kiosks or maybe even van type ‘consent form and witness services’. An enterprising new lawyer could make a lot of money at $20 a form for video witnessing and then providing post-date services to the highest payer.

[DoughtyOne]

Correction:

Every FEMALE student deserves a learning environment that is safe and healthy...

Men, if you have sex on these campuses, you're risking your academic and economic life to do it.

[mellow velo]

I guess the guys will all have to carry their own breathalyzer around so they can be sure they get a legit “yes” from a woman and not an alcohol-induced yes!

[Freestate316]

It depends on what the meaning of yes is

[eyeamok]

Under the bill, someone who is drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep cannot grant consent.

So If I get all drugged up and Drunk, I can now go out and Commit a Crime and be absolved from all Responsibility, because I was Drugged or Drunk and UNABLE TO KNOW BETTER.

[Steve Van Doorn]

said, "Liberals are very confused....they have to legislate that it's criminal to have sex before marriage..."

The best part is a few years from now when they realized what they have done. It will be the conservatives that did it of course.

[Calvin Locke]

Exactly. It means “yes”, until it means “no”.

[expat2]

How romantic!
Basically and generally, women are looking for security more than sex, while men are just looking for sex.
Perhaps we are going back to the old days, when a man and woman had to sign on to marriage (the positive YES that CA is looking for) before the man got his jollies.

[BruceS]

Does this mean that if the guy is drunk, then he can’t consent and the gal is the rapist? Didn’t think so...

[mrsmel]

I want to know if this is going to be applied to sodomite “relationships”.