Australia: Female Politician Suggests Contract To Combat False Rape Accusations

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'A SOUTH Australian politician, a female one at that, suggests women should sign a contract before sex to combat false rape allegations.
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Ms Bressington says sex contracts may be necessary to protect men if proposed new laws are passed in her state.

On ABC radio last week she said: "This Bill makes men guilty until proven innocent and they will have no defence."
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She said these contracts could also contain personal details, such as the woman's address and licence number, as well as her marital status and whether she has children.
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This is the silliest piece of legislation I have encountered. Ms Bressington's suggestion misses the point that women are the vulnerable ones here.'

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It's pathetic that it had to come to this, but what the hell else can a man do when the courts are stacked against him in the false-rape business? The author of this article needs to pull her head out of her ass and realize that men can be victims of crimes, too. Rape is horrible, so why waste those resources on idiots who falsely accuse men to get their way (sometimes to avoid paying a bill)!

This is the silliest piece of legislation I have encountered. Ms Bressington's suggestion misses the point that women are the vulnerable ones here.

Just because legislation doesn't directly help women doesn't make it silly. I know wymyn like you have been spoiled with things like VAWA and Title IX, but it's time to put the cookie jar back on the shelf where both genders have to work together to get some.

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Men must be protected from false rape accusations, and it's good to see a politician acknowledging this. However, I think this particular plan (at least, what little of it is described by that ridiculously sexist journalist) is seriously flawed on several levels.

If a man does take advantage of the signed contract and does things expressly against the woman's will, she should be able to accuse him of rape. "I agreed to ______, which explicitly did not include ______." Alternately, "I said 'No' halfway through, and he didn't stop." This seems fair to me; rapists shouldn't be able to hold up a pre-signed contract in defense of rape.

However, if a man doesn't take advantage, the woman would still be able to claim that he did--that she "changed her mind" about a certain act (or the whole thing) halfway through, but he refused to listen. It would still go to court, still ruin the man (even if he's found innocent).

Meaning, essentially, that such a contract gives men no protection at all.

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is that the law has been so screwed up, trying to do just every little thing feminists want for the last 40/50 years, that there is no longer any way to protect men from being falsely accused, prosecuted, and serve time because women want to be able to have the moon delivered to the door, w/ flowers. and WHEN (not if) women do wrong it is to be forgiven. like, what part of that do you not understand, mean mean man?

men have been bent over by the law so long i truly believe most don't know they can stand up staight.

so MORE bad law is all the pitiful excuse for representatives of the people can come up with? and they are afraid to even do that if it doesn't profit women.

FA

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As long as a woman's retroactive changing of her mind -- which is inscribed in rape and marital rape law (typically 30 days to decide if she was violated; i.e. whether the act was consensual) --- remains the LAW:

no man is ever safe if he has sex with a woman.

That is just a fact.

She can allege rape even if you "coerced" her into signing a consent form. Or, if she has one too many drinks.

Sex in America is being criminalized.

Dispute my argument, please.

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It says, "Ms Bressington's suggestion misses the point that women are the vulnerable ones here"

Does that mean that since a woman may feel "vulnerable" to being raped during sex, that she should be given free lattitude to make an allegation based purely on her own subjective experience?

How does that statement even address the issue? The creation of a contract as described, does not increase or belittle any danger to the woman which may exist.

-ax

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When women are barren at 35, and try to have children at 40, and it comes out with down syndrone,

Then we'll look back at history and see that the "twisted sisters" chased away men from fatherhood, by using fatherhood and children as the tool for their full control..

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I left a comment on the site which reads:

It's good to see that some politicians are finally starting to see that false rape allegations are becomming a problem that is getting out of hand. However, this is not the way to go about the problem. The only way we will ever see a resolution to this is if false rape allegations are punished with the same punishment as rape. A pre-sex contract won't do anything. After all, prenuptial agreements have been defeated in court in the past. Instead of now making it so we need a female's written consent for sex, perhaps, it would be better to make it so that those who falsely accuse others of rape are punished. (end of comment)

It sure is a sad world when spoiled girls use children and their vagina to get their way. I agree, all I could think as I read the article was how I wanted to backhand the sexist wench who wrote it.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

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