Responsibility

[andrewducker]

This is inspired by the comment here, where ladysysiphus says "If you have consumed enough alcohol to impair your judgement, I believe you then have to take at least some responsibility for putting yourself in a position where something like this might happen."

[Poll #619684]

Comments

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

If a precident was set by jailing this guy for a rape that the victim couldn't remember and couldn't be proven any other way, then the world would be a rather dangerous place for lots of perfectly ordinary (if obnoxious and horny) lads.

And this would be a bad thing HOW?

This is unfortunate since of course he may well have raped her, but if you change that law you wade into extremely dangerous ground.

Yeah - men couldn't just rape women and say "But she said she consented!" thus introducing Reasonable Doubt. If we quit assuming that the default state of all women is consent to sex, then a man who wants to have sex with a woman can't just assume she consented and have sex with her, with impunity, as is the case right now.