Word: consents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mutual consent does not mean the lack of physical resistance. It means both parties taking full, active responsibility for each other. If a man wants to have sex with a woman regardless of whether it's right for her, then he's violating her in intention. If he acts on that intention, then he's violating her physically...
Moreover, law students would consent to serve by deciding to apply for admission to the bar, just as medical students consent to work as residents. Public service would simply be made a requirement for the practice of law. No one is forced to be a lawyer. Those who choose to be choose the responsibilities as well as the privileges...
MORGAN ASSERTS that "'no' is the bare minimum statement to constitute resistance." But he goes on to argue that in our society "'no' does not always mean 'no.'" This leaves women in a very dangerous position--they must say "no" to indicate lack of consent, but "no" is not understood to be a lack of consent...
...handed a box of pills and a diaphragm with their notebooks and Coop card when they come to college." Date rape, like available birth control, is a "PC" threat to this writer's oh-so-comfortable picture of the world. He thus suggests that birth control implies continuous consent to all future sexual activity, negating the possibility of date rape...
...allies. They were being pulled into the very "bazaar bargaining," as one British official phrased it, that they had sworn to avoid. Worse, they were being maneuvered into a box. Had negotiations stayed on the course they were taking, the U.S. and friends would have had to either consent to a Soviet rescue of Saddam from certain defeat, and all too likely his resuscitation as an aggressive menace to Middle East and world peace, or risk being called warmongers...