UK: Rape Crisis has 'concerns' over smartphone app which films sexual consent

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2015-07-15 06:52

Article here. Excerpt:

'Users of We-Consent record 20-second clips naming who they're about to have sex with.

The app only works if the camera detects human faces and if both people involved are clearly heard saying "yes".

However, support group Rape Crisis says that although the app has good intentions it "throws up concerns".

Katie Russell, the national spokeswoman for Rape Crisis in England and Wales, told Newsbeat: "Someone saying 'yes' to sex on camera does not necessarily prove that they have given their consent.

"Consent must be fully and freely given by someone with the capacity to do so.

"Video footage might not capture whether someone has been threatened, bullied or intimidated into saying 'yes' to sex and, if they have, then they have not fully or freely given their consent, even if they've said the word 'yes' out loud.
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"The concept seems to assume and suggest that 'false allegations of rape' are a common problem that young people need to be worried about; they're absolutely not.

"In fact, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has looked carefully at false allegations of rape and concluded that they are 'very rare'."'

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... if you and your would-be sex partner "fully consent" right in front of the whole group of them and do it right there in front of them, too.

But wait... always there's the possibility that he is "controlling" her, etc., even so... no one can ever be sure... the only fix is to outlaw heterosexual sex! Argghh!!

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2015-07-17 02:16