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user-inactivated  ·  3446 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New York is introducing legislation which makes it necessary to ask permission for any and all acts of intimacy.

    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."

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.





user-inactivated  ·  3446 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

aidrocsid  ·  3446 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Isn't it weird? All the anti-sex laws used to be based on conservatism and traditionalism, now it's liberals who are no fun. Same with the PC crap. What the hell happened?

user-inactivated  ·  3446 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Extremism is never rational. For anecdotal example, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles was a thing in Europe because the word "ninja" had too violent of a connotation.

Moderation and temperance is important even in legislation.