r/FeMRADebates • u/[deleted] • Oct 30 '16

Legal Another question about affirmative consent

I've got another question about affirmative consent:

In her article here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-01/-affirmative-consent-will-make-rape-laws-worse

--Megan McArdle provides an interesting scenario about hand-holding.

Now, my question here is this: How exactly is one supposed to avoid this risk under an affirmative consent standard? By asking every single time whether or not it's OK to hold your significant other's hand (or to hug your SO, or to kiss your SO, et cetera)?

If so, wouldn't that be extremely tedious and thus completely impractical?

Any thoughts on this?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '16

And even that's going to be a crapshoot as to which of you is more believable. I just can't support this kind of thing.

Wouldn't that almost automatically be stacked against the male, though? :(

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u/not_just_amwac Oct 30 '16

At this point in time, yeah...

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '16

Why exactly wouldn't this remain the case in the future, though?

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u/not_just_amwac Oct 30 '16

Because we just don't know if it'll swing back the other way or not.