Fast Buck$, Coorabell
Pru Goward, the minister for something or other, was quoted last week as saying that, before having sex, men needed to ask the woman involved to say ‘Yes’.
I object to that; the woman should be required to say ‘Yes, please’.
Either way I am reminded of a statement attributed to a Hollywood movie mogul in the 1930s: ‘A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on’.
Oh, did I tell you I was raped?
About 25 years ago I found myself agreeing to sleep in the same bed as a somewhat younger woman. As she wasn’t my type I didn’t see any danger in the idea – silly me.
During the night I was woken by her passionately frotting up against me, to which I responded briefly in a manly fashion, before realising that no way did I want this.
If such were to happen now I could probably bring a rape charge, given that female teachers have been jailed for having sex with male high school students.
This is something that could not have been imagined as a cause for complaint back in the day.
My experience as described above is not dissimilar to one of the Swedish charges brought against Julian Assange; he’d had consensual sex with a woman in the evening and when he later wanted more she’d apparently declined but he had (allegedly) proceeded as if being in bed with him in itself constituted consent.
So, girls, did I consent to what happened to me by agreeing to share a bed?
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