Word: consents
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...record straight: my parents did not place The Ad, that was not my MCAT score, those were not my grades, and that horribly pompous picture was taken without my consent. My only memory is being fed grainy applesauce and waking up hours later in a dark suit...
...University of Southern California, contends that reporting the name in the Palm Beach case and not in the Central Park jogger case proves "how much acquaintance rape is still not considered to be a real rape." Date-rape cases can be messy: Was it an unambivalent lack of consent, or mixed signals, next-day regrets, confusion from large amounts of alcohol? When a charge is made and there is no clear-cut physical evidence, determining whether a crime has been committed can come down to the victim's word against that of the suspect, whose name is known...
...form of protection that perpetuates the victim's sense of shame. Estrich, who was raped in 1974, wrote a book about her ordeal in 1987 in the hope of persuading other victims to come forward. But like most feminists, she vehemently opposes the "outing" of rape victims without their consent. "It serves no purpose," she says. "Has the public gotten any more information it needed? The answer is no. Has a woman been branded and humiliated, her ability to go on with her life, to order a pizza, go to the hairdresser without being known as 'that woman' been permanently...
Efforts to define responsible sexual behavior and consent so that no one would be confused about when a rape has occurred have, not surprisingly, uncovered the deeper, more subtle disagreements and misunderstandings about precisely these points. Various studies and surveys have found, for example, that men and women have different interpretations of behaviors as simple as a smile, and as serious as the expected quid pro quo for paying for your date's dinner...
...smaller and weaker sex," and because men have the physical capacity to imtimidate, threaten or force a woman into having intercourse, then every man who is unwilling to gain his own sexual release at the cost of his partner's violation must commit himself to hearing clear consent. Not just lack of protest, not just silent submission--but active, enthusiastic, sober consent...