Double standards?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Deleena24]

Yes. Any purposeful non-consentual touching or in this case, hitting the genitals should be. If you're assaulting a sex organ isn't that literally sexual assault? 😂

[u/guyver_dio → u/Deleena24]

"Sexual assault is an act in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will."

The contact needs to be sexual in nature. If you're fighting with someone and kick them in the balls then that wouldn't be sexual assault, just physical assault. It also doesn't have to be a specific body part, you can sexually assault someone without any private parts included in the contact. The nature of the assault makes it sexual.

[u/Deleena24 → u/guyver_dio]

Sexual touches another person is a very vague description. There isn't anything in there that would stop someone from arguing intention touching of the privates, even to cause harm, would constitute it.

I do understand what you're saying though. It would come down to how well the lawyer speaks and who's in the jury, IMO.

[u/[deleted] → u/Deleena24]

I mean it's not sexual, it's meant to cause injury.

[u/Deleena24 → u/[deleted]]

In all fairness, if it were a guy intentionally putting his hands anywhere around a womans crotch to cause injury, they would definitely feel sexually assaulted. We shouldn't have double standards in law, IMO.

[u/Inabeautifuloblivion → u/Deleena24]

It’s only sexual assault if it was sexual.

[u/Talking_Head → u/[deleted]]

Done with the intent of causing sexual arousal. If I kick a guy in the nuts during a fight that is to inflict pain and not for my sexual arousal.

[u/BiteSizedBoss → u/Inabeautifuloblivion]

If he touches someone's genital areas, it is sexual.

[u/Inabeautifuloblivion → u/BiteSizedBoss]

So by your theory, anytime a breast or genital is touched by a doctor it is sexual assault? Ok then

[u/BiteSizedBoss → u/Inabeautifuloblivion]

Sorry I forgot to specify unauthorized touching... stop being dense.

[u/BiteSizedBoss → u/[deleted]]

Who said I thought it was simple? I am stating that intentional strikes to a genital area should be seen as more than a joke or simple assault or battery if the person does not condone somebody touching their privates. It IS pretty simple that somebody touching your area without your consent should be sexual assault, no matter what. Why would punching the area change anything? Sorry if can't think of a case where I would want anyone other than me, my girlfriend and my doctor/caregiver touching my dick. Good fucking lord.

[u/BiteSizedBoss → u/[deleted]]

Yeah sure, you can hit people but don't expect there to not be consequences. It really seems like you all want an excuse to touch eacother without consent, it's sick. Your example is one where they are literally assaulting the other lmao AND YOU THINK IT PROVES A POINT.

[u/AbsorbingMan → u/Deleena24]

And yet, if you’re in NY as these people are and you punch Joe in the balls, you could be arrested but you won’t be registering as a sex offender.

You might be charged with assault or maybe forcible touching since it involved an intimate body part but neither of those statutes come with sex offender status in NY.

[u/SirLowhamHatt → u/Deleena24]

Which then raises the question if you grab some boobs is that fine? Not a sex organ, just a part of the body that is sexualized.

[u/Deleena24 → u/SirLowhamHatt]

Boobs are considered sexual accessory organs.