North Carolina: Where 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' When It Comes to Rape and Sexual Assault

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Posted Under: Body Politics

In this era of #MeToo and laws forcing women to have their rapists’ babies, a North Carolina bill that would have made it illegal to continue having sex with someone who told them to stop failed to even make it out of committee for a vote in that state’s Senate.

Yes, in the year 2019, in North Carolina, once a person consents to sex, there are no backsies. People can’t change their mind. So, depending on the timing and how a date night might progress, “no” doesn’t mean “no.”

Mind. Blown.

No backsies. You consented to sex and, let's say it starts to get violent, there is no dialing it back. You consented. You have no right to say no.

North Carolina is “the only state where a person cannot revoke consent for a sexual act once it is underway,” the Associated Press reports.

The AP also notes:

In North Carolina, it is legal to have nonconsensual sex with an incapacitated person if that person willingly got drunk or high. It is also legal to drug someone’s drink.

Dear Gawd. The only state that allows not only non-consensual sex but legal to drug and rape a woman and call it consensual.

And so, in North Carolina, as it has ever been since at least the Disco Era, it is perfectly legal for someone to drug your drink, rape you, and then simply call it consensual sex.

What in the what has this world come to?

https://www.theroot.com/north-carolina-where-no-doesn-t-mean-no-when-it-co-1834859021

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1. Consensual rape according to a Missouri republican.