Feminist scholar’s research finds that ‘yes means yes’ sex policies don’t work in practice

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-08-05 22:22

Article here. Excerpt:

'New York, California, Connecticut and Illinois all expect college students to get the “affirmative consent” of their partners before having sex. Otherwise, it’s sexual assault under state law.

Many other colleges have voluntarily implemented “yes means yes” policies that automatically judge a student (usually male) responsible for sexual misconduct if his partner (usually female) says later that her apparent consent was not valid.

Those laws and rules badly misunderstand how students actually approach sex, according to research by a self-proclaimed feminist scholar at San Francisco State University’s Center for Research and Education on Gender and Sexuality.

Prof. Jason Laker and his research partner, Santa Clara University’s Erica Boas, have spent the past four years interviewing students about how they initiate and agree to engage in sexual activity – and it’s nothing like affirmative consent requires, Inside Higher Ed reports.'

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... with how things go between ppl who want to have sex with each other and the authors of these laws and policies know it. What they want to do is create a standard of practice that allows a female student to impugn a male one at will for whatever reason she is inclined to have. It is an instrument of persecution of male students concocted by feminists and supported by nymphotropic college admins and lawmakers.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2016-08-06 14:47