should sex between consenting adults ever be illegal?

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63. Hold onto your hat, Cali...

The law applies to students within the same school district

I am also freaked out, but accustomed to it. Though this case involves a female teacher and male students the reactions here are the detritus of second-wave feminism that is so popular on this board, and almost nowhere else.

The council of busy-bodies who will decide whether an adult woman is capable of consent is the infantalization of women who are not strident second-wave feminists and are thus not capable of thinking for themselves. There are people here who believe, literally, that a woman cannot meaningfully consent to sexual intercourse with a man. (Though she can consent to same-sex relations.)

It os grotesque.

We have a question here. What constitutes consent on the part of an adult?

The obvious answer is, "What that adult considers to be consent." If we cannot define our own consent then we might as well be farm animals!

But we get all this stuff about how consent is murky... which is fine for the philosophical pondering of free will but obviously inapplicable to law.

And the punchline is that if some council of busy-bodies can decide whether you gave meaningful consent, a council of busy-bodies can decide whether you did not consent.

"She says she was raped, but she isn't very experienced. We have a better idea of her consent than she possibly could."

The Handmaid's Tale and the Dorkinistas are just two sides to a coin. Which group of smug busybodies gets to tell women who they are?