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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:00 AM

"No" means nothing once sex has started

A terrifying new ruling from a Maryland appellate court.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 02:10 AM

news flash

This never happens to people who actually respect themselves first and then actually take their time getting to know and love and respect each other...before sex. Um, and that rarely happens between drinks and dessert, you assholes. Just like Dorothy in Oz, you dimwits have always had the power to get to know yourself very well first, then your partner. If you could admit the problem lies in the fact that you want to fuck on demand with no consequences you'd be halfway home to solving these problems you create when you choose to fuck on the fly. Think about it, if you dare to. Every problem about sexual relations arises from lack of communication, which is born of lack of self-respect. And it produces such fool's gold as Rebecca Traister urging women to "really think several times" before fucking that next stranger. Offered without irony. PLease, when the inmates are leading the asylum.....

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 01:23 AM

Definition of rape is quick

If sex is nonconsensual, once penetration has occurred - it's rape. When I yell no! pull out quick, be really nice to me in any way I say, and hope it's enough. See ya in court.

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:33 AM

The Reason This Pisses Men Off

Is because, from a physical point of view, rape is the same as sex. The only difference is in the mind. A couple could have violent consensual sex, and a man could rape a woman quietly. The reson we point out the problems with definitions of rape is that it leaves men open to being accused of rape by anyone they have sex with.

And an accused rapist is the same as a rapist in societies eyes.

Now, I don't think many women do this. But that they can is frightening, especially to readers of this blog, most of whom I'm going to guess aren't rapists and are probably feminists to some degree. It would be like waking up to find out you could be accused of stealing something without there needed to be any proof or even a stolen object other than that you had been in someone's house.

I've been in strangely opposite situations. I was at the end of a relationship with a girl. We'd mostly stopped having sex. She'd still walk around the house we lived in naked all the time, and I would, being a male, still try to have sex with her all the time. This would mostly lead to me eating her out, and as soon as she came, she would decide that she didnt' want to have sex anymore. So I'd be left there even more horny. Yes, I could have said no to doign anything to please her, but really, I have a penis, meaning that any sexual contact with a woman I'm attracted to is better than none. And while she didn't deserve to be raped (obviously), I think I had the patience of a saint not to turn into a mindless sex animal.

I think any woman on the brink of orgasm knows how much the body wants to finish once it has started.

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:12 AM

I Think This Falls Under The Category of

"The Difference Between A Jerk And A Rapist."

Because if a guy doesn't stop, it means he's probably just a guy you shouldn't call back.

Do you really think this guy in Maryland deserved to go to jail because a chick changed her mind during sex?

Also, this part makes you sound ridiculous: "What if the tenor of the encounter changes as soon as you say "yes"? Does that count as consensual? What if there is a hand over your mouth when sex begins? Is the sex consensual if you're unconscious, or have been drugged and wake up or come out of it in the middle of the act?"

That's called assault. That's like saying someone beats you up and then they have a right to steal cause you couldn't say no.

This guy's obviously an ass, but not deserving of going to jail.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 06:55 PM

READ THE FULL APPEAL!

he victim had already had sex with one guy, and after she asked the second guy to stop

READ THE FULL APPEAL!

The first guy, the co-defendant, plead guilty to rape. Then after he was done, the second guy pushed himself on her.

The prosecutor in the case brought up rape trauma syndrome to explain why she would have consented briefly to the second guy.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 06:12 PM

The law is the law

Let's say you meet a really hot guy like a Brad Pitt type or whatever makes you squirt a bucket of cum. And let's say that you're gettin' the groove, gettin' all self-lubricated at the mere sight of him while listening to some of dat Barry White shit. You've consented just slightly to sex with the phrase "Oh yes, yes, yes. Take me now, you megamuffin stud! Baby my hoohoo is ready for a poundin'!" and you know, having read sex-ed manuals that you're going to now impale yourself on his nine-iron. So he sticks his shlong in and you're riding it and riding it but then you realize that he's a grower not a shower and you've just consented to a man with... a deceptive five-foot penis.

Now, what if, in this completely implausible situation, you say "no" to this circus satyr and he still keeps growing while doing the act until your labia is ready to split? The nerve of this pig man! Is it rape? Yes! Oh yes!

So since, as we all know, the law should account for completely implausible situations that only occur in cartoons, I think a woman should have the right to sue any man just because he is a man, because he has a penis and because men are just stupid animals that don't know what "no" means. We have to stick it to da man. Tell him that gynofascist matriarchy is the way of the enlightened 21st century and if not, imprisonment!

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 05:08 PM

Yes means no.

Or not yet or not now or now but not really or I changed my mind or I'm in the wet spot. Yes means something or other, or it doesn't or 5 minutes from now it means something else, or not. Let's call the cops. I can accept that. I can also accept we are at the point where men and women should have as little to do with one another as possible. A truce or an armistice or maybe just indifference is in order. In the meantime lets tear up all the laws regarding constructive abandonment because honestly, it's just too risky. Sorry.

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