Thoughts? Personally, I don't see this ending well for anyone.
This just comes down to pressing more charges after the sexual assault occurred, so the legislation may as well be increased fines and court costs plus more drama and strife for college students. Seriously, who thinks the state needs to be more involved in intimacy, and who else might be taken advantage of in the process.
If the game didn't have rules, how did it change the rules of the game?"It changes the rules of the game. It gives the game rules," Lake said.
I get why this is happening, but I'm not sure this is going to help. In college you are really going to have to watch who you are intimate with because one wrong move and bam sexual assault charges. Plus, I'm curious to see how this law protects a man from unwanted sexual advances as I feel like current laws don't protect or even consider it right now.
So, if my wife is walking past me and I give her a playful slap on the ass, I'm committing a crime? Damn. I'm gonna become a hardcore criminal in frequency alone. Kidding aside, I think I remember a lot of states having laws against anal and oral sex at one time. I don't think it ever stopped consenting adults though. I doubt people will pay much mind to these laws either, unless they start to actually be enforced. Then I think there might be a backlash.But there is a movement to make the same laws apply for everyone. The American Law Institute, which helps write the nation's criminal codes, is in the process of re-writing the sexual assault penal code to incorporate "Yes Means Yes."
In the US S&M always puts you at risk of assault charges, because it isn't possible to consent to "serious bodily injury" and "serious" is interpreted as "pretty much any injury at all". People don't worry about it much, because if it's consentual then the law will never be involved and it doesn't matter. This seems to be the same deal.