What motivates the outrage over Julian Assange's Political Asylum?

[pnwmom]

88. According to this quote, he entered her when she was asleep. An unconscious woman

cannot give consent.

I don't know where you got this particular quote though. Is the woman here supposed to be Miss A or Miss W? What I read about Miss W was slightly different, but it agrees with your account that he penetrated her while she was asleep. Hence, no consent.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden

The following day, Miss W phoned Assange and arranged to meet him late in the evening, according to her statement. The pair went back to her flat in Enkoping, near Stockholm. Miss W told police that though they started to have sex, Assange had not wanted to wear a condom, and she had moved away because she had not wanted unprotected sex. Assange had then lost interest, she said, and fallen asleep. However, during the night, they had both woken up and had sex at least once when "he agreed unwillingly to use a condom".

Early the next morning, Miss W told police, she had gone to buy breakfast before getting back into bed and falling asleep beside Assange. She had awoken to find him having sex with her, she said, but when she asked whether he was wearing a condom he said no. "According to her statement, she said: 'You better not have HIV' and he answered: 'Of course not,' " but "she couldn't be bothered to tell him one more time because she had been going on about the condom all night. She had never had unprotected sex before."

SNIP

Police spoke to Miss W's ex-boyfriend, who told them that in two and a half years they had never had sex without a condom because it was "unthinkable" for her.